Google’s Year in Search 2017: Bitcoin, iPhone 8 and Netflix among the most popular Google searches this year

If you’ve been keeping abreast of the news, there will be few surprises in Google’s Year in Search 2017 lists. 

Meghan Markle topped the list of overall trending searches, after her relationship and more recent engagement to Prince Harry, followed by the iPhone 8 and Hurricane Irma.

 The incredible popularity of the ‘fidget spinner’ saw the toy taking the fourth spot in top trending terms, while Netflix drama

The top trending ‘What is…?’ questions included ‘what is a hung parliament’, ‘what is an exit poll’ and ‘what is the DUP’ and the top ‘How to…?’ questions ranged from ‘how to make slime?’ to ‘how to buy Bitcoin?‘

Other Bitcoin-related searches included ‘what is Bitcoin’, and ‘how to mine Bitcoins’. 

Here is our selection of the top trending queries of the 2017

UK Top Trending Queries

1. Meghan Markle

2. iPhone 8

3. Hurricane Irma

4. Fidget spinner

5. Manchester bombing

6. Grenfell Tower

7. 13 Reasons Why

8. Tara Palmer Tomkinson

9. Shannon Matthews

10. iPhone X

UK Top Trending ‘How To’ Queries

1. How to make slime?

2. How to buy Bitcoin?

3. How to stay young?

4. How to watch Mayweather vs McGregor?

5. How to watch Joshua vs Klitschko?

6. How to mine Bitcoins?

7. How to make Yorkshire pudding?

8. How to make a fidget spinner?

9. How to vote in the general election?

10. How to lose belly fat fast?

UK Top Trending ‘What Is’ Queries

1. What is a hung parliament?

2. What is an exit poll?

3. What is the Confederations Cup?

4. What is Bitcoin?

5. What is the Antikythera mechanism?

6. What is a pangolin?

7. What is a general election?

8. What is waterboarding?

9. What is the DUP?

10. What is Pink’s real name?

UK Top Trending ‘News Events’ Queries

1. Hurricane Irma

2. Manchester bombing

3. Grenfell Tower

4. North Korea

5. London Bridge attack

6. General election

7. Harvey Weinstein

8. Catalan independence

9. Las Vegas shooting

10. Kevin Spacey

UK Top Trending ‘People’ Queries

1. Meghan Markle

2. Tara Palmer Tomkinson

3. Shannon Matthews

4. Charlie Gard

5. Jack Maynard

6. Donald Trump

7. Chester Bennington

8. Bruce Forsyth

9. Harvey Weinstein

10. Jodie Whittaker

UK Top Trending ‘Sporting Events’ Queries

1. Wimbledon

2. Grand National

3. World Cup 2018 draw

4. Mayweather vs. McGregor

5. ICC Champions Trophy

6. Tour De France

7. Confederations Cup

8. Joshua vs. Klitschko

9. FA Cup Final

10. Champions League Final

UK Top Trending ‘TV Show’ Queries

1. 13 Reasons Why

2. I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

3. Strictly Come Dancing

4. Celebrity Big Brother

5. Game of Thrones

6. Peaky Blinders

7. Three Girls

8. Taboo

9. Little Boy Blue

10. Love Island

UK Top Trending ‘Film’ Queries

1. Beauty and the Beast

2. It

3. Dunkirk

4. La La Land

5. Logan

6. Murder on the Orient Express

7. Justice League

8. Fast & Furious 8

9. Wonder Woman

10. Blade Runner 2049

UK Top Trending ‘Number 1s’ Queries

1. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You

2. Harry Styles – Sign of the Times

3. Dua Lipa – New Rules

4. Post Malone – rockstar ft. 21 Savage

5. Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do

6. Clean Bandit – Symphony feat. Zara Larsson

7. Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee – Despacito ft. Justin Bieber

8. Calvin Harris – Feels ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Big Sean

9. Sam Smith – Too Good At Goodbyes

10. Camila Cabello – Havana ft. Young Thug

UK Top ‘Premier League Teams’ Queries

1. Manchester Utd

2. Liverpool

3. Arsenal

4. Chelsea

5. Tottenham

6. Everton

7. Manchester City

8. West Ham

9. Newcastle Utd

10. Leicester City

11. Southampton

12. Crystal Palace

13. West Brom

14. Stoke City

15. Watford

16. Burnley

17. Swansea

18. Huddersfield

19. Brighton & Hove Albion

20. Bournemouth

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