What topic sparked the most interest online this year? It wasn’t the US elections or their candidates Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton. Forget the drama-filled Euro 2016 that saw England faced out by Ireland and the Pokemon Go phenomenon.
Here’s what people Googled most:
10. Hillary Clinton
Having come closer than any other woman to become the first female president of the United States, she generated loads of traffic and google searches.
9. US Elections
A hot topic gathering searches such as who won the primaries, who was in the polls, who won the debates, who won the presidential election. It was a hot topic.
8. Donald Trump
Trump shocked the world when he won the election. He also generated loads of traffic before that from controversial topics, his speeches and funny enough his tweets.
7. David Bowie
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The legendary English singer, songwriter and actor died in January at 69 years. He died just 2 days after releasing his latest album that won him a BRIT award recently.
6. Rio 2016 Olympics
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The women’s gymnastics team killed it and Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt made history!
5. Slither.io
A great multiplayer online game in which players try to grow the longest snake by consuming capsules that appear on the screen and defeat other players on the high score table made it a major hit on the App Store, Play Store and Google search
4. Pokemon Go
3. Hurricane Matthew
The category 5 hurricane (which is the highest category a hurricane can be categorized as. The storm has winds of 250 Km/h or stronger) slammed the Caribbean and the Southern US causing ripple effects in Haiti and other parts.
2. Prince
The American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer famously known for his hit purple rain. The music legend died in April of what toxicologists report as an ‘accidental opioid overdose’
1. Powerball
The no. 1 most searched topic in 2016 was the billion dollar powerball lottery. The powerball jackpot had grown to $1.6 billion the largest ever that gained a lot of Google searches from hopeful winners and eventually more searches when winners were announced.
A smaller (relatively speaking) $429 million jackpot later in the year also sent lottery hopefuls to Googling.
And that’s that folks, thanks for reading through, if you thought the Kenyan Lotto or SportPesa jackpot was a mouthful, you’ll have trouble slowing that!
