The wait is finally over. After months of uncertainty, anticipation, ice bucket challenges gone horribly wrong, riots in the streets of Nanaimo and many a sleepless night due to the heater crapping out in our king-size waterbed… again, Google Canada’s annual list of the most popular trending search queries is finally here.
And the winner is… Robin Williams… who committed suicide in August. That’s not very festive, is it? The World Cup was the second most searched item on Google, followed by the iPhone 6 and the Winter Olympics. Woo hoo! But before you get too giddy, the next most popular searches were Ebola (yuck), Philip Seymour Hoffman (sad), Jennifer Lawrence (yow-za!), Joan Rivers (sad again), Jian Gomeshi (yuck) and the disease ALS (really sad).
So what does this tell us about Canadians? Well, they have a keen interest in dead celebrities, celebrities embroiled in controversy, diseases, technology and sports. Quite a well-rounded nation, if you ask us.
Not to be outdone, K&K has compiled a list of our most popular trending search queries on Google and they are in no particular order: mirkin, Vitamix, whatever happened to Eric Stoltz?, “Shake it Off,” jai alai, cheap booze that will get you drunkest, futon injuries, tips for removing tear stains, can you physically eat 50 eggs in one sitting like in Cool Hand Luke?, badgers, cures for gout, Mary Stuart Masterson haircut in Some Kind of Wonderful, Ratt’s Out of the Cellar, mysterious rashes, Bootsauce reunion, used PT Cruiser, insomnia, Perry Mason and “best nachos ever.”
