Bangalore: Google, the search giant, acts gateway to websites. It’s the bearer of the data which sums up the year’s most popular searches- peoples, places, terms, news and many others. The data is released as “Zeitgeist report” by Google every year end. The report ranks the “most searched” queries in the order of the queries with the largest volume of searches. So if your curiosity is already aroused about Zeitgeist report for India, read on to know the most popular searches on Google in 2012.

Most Searched News

The year 2012 saw many sensational headlines in the country, the fluctuating market, anti corruption crusade, a former CM’s unexpected death, death of yester year super star, airline in trouble and many others. The news stories that hooked netizens on the web this year came last on the “most popular searches” list, they are

#1 Sensex

#2 Vilasrao Deshmukh Death

#3 Hurricane Sandy

#4 Anna Hazare

#5 Aseem Trivedi Cartoons

#6 Abhishek Manu Singhvi

#7 Kingfisher Airlines

#8 Earthquake in Chennai

#9 Pranab Mukharjee President

#10 Rajesh Khanna Death

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