For India’s over 100 million internet users search is all about a secure job, education and Bollywood.
According to the Google Zeitgeist 2012, that reveals the searches in large volumes from across the globe, India’s top search for 2012 were Institute for Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), GATE exams and Sunny Leone.
The others that made to the top searches list for 2012 include movies Ek Tha Tiger and Rowdy Rathore followed by Central Board of Secondary Education, Rajesh Khanna, Aakash Tablet, HDFC and ecommerce site Jabong.
The "most searched" queries are the most popular terms for 2012—ranked in order of the queries with the largest volume of searches.
Bollywood ruled the list for the most searched people. Topping the list was Sunny Leone, followed by Rajesh Khanna, who died this year, Poonam Pandey, Alia Bhatt, Nirmal Baba, Sherlyn Chopra, Yash Chopra among others.
Barfi, while will represent Indian movies at the Oscar’s, in terms of search it is seventh on the list. Interestingly, Ek Tha Tiger tops the list of the most searched movies, followed by Rowdy Rathore, Jannat 2, and Housefull2.
The only place that Bollywood did not have any presence was the news searches. Sensex while topped the list politician and former chief minister of Maharshtra Vilasrao Deshmukh’s death and Hurricane Sandy where the second and third most searched news. Some of the other than made to the list were Anna Hazare, cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Kingfisher airlines.
Google studied an aggregation of over one trillion searches (or queries) that people typed into Google Search this year. They used data from multiple sources, including Google Trends and internal data tools and filtered out spam and repeat queries to build lists that best reflect the spirit of 2012.
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