Google has compiled its 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist, a series of lists that show the people, places, and topics that captured the world’s attention in 2012. The search-engine and online firm studied the aggregation of over one trillion search queries to assemble 838 top-10 lists from 55 countries.
Included in these lists are the ten most searched terms in the Atlanta area in 2012. They are, in order:
1. Hurricane Sandy
2. Whitney Houston Atlanta Home
3. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
4. Atlanta Braves
5. Megabus
6. NBA Scores
7. Fathers Day 2012
8. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9. State Employees Credit Union of Atlanta
10.Trayvon Martin Case
The U.S. “trending” queries, those subjects that had the highest amount of interest over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011, showed the elections and the 2012 Olympic games got our interest, along with the irrepressible, irresistible PSY’s Gangam Style song and video. The strange news tale of African warlord Joseph Kony, which got even stranger when the founder of the nonprofit that brought attention to Kony’s atrocities had a very public breakdown, brought up the bottom of the list.
Top Ten U.S. Trending Searches in 2012
1. Whitney Houston
2. Hurricane Sandy
3. Election 2012
4. Hunger Games
5. Jeremy Lin
6. Olympics 2012
7. Amanda Todd
8. Gangnam Style
9. Michael Clarke Duncan
10. Kony 2012
