{"id":28421,"date":"2012-12-12T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=28421"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T11:02:11","slug":"googles-most-searched-terms-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/28421\/googles-most-searched-terms-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s most searched terms revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search giant Google has announced its annual Zeitgeist, a list of\u00a0top searches by South Africans in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list for overall trending South African searches in 2012 is free classifieds site, OLX.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of tech\u00a0trends, the iPad 3 captured South Africa\u2019s imagination, coming in 10th overall, and snatching first place on the top gadgets list.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainer Whitney Houston (who passed away in February), claims second place on the South African list, while Hurricane Sandy, which devastated portions of the US, the Caribbean and the Mid-Atlantic in October came in third.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u00a0was also ranked first on the list of overall trending people in SA, followed closely by international athletics star, Caster Semenya and newsmaking social celebrity, Khanyi Mbau.<\/p>\n<p>The Gangnam style dance, which also became the most watched video on YouTube, ranked\u00a0fourth in the overall trending searches. In fifth place was the 2012 Olympics, which also topped the trending events list.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans kept it local with searches for short-lived airline, Velvet Sky, coming in at sixth place. Caster Semenya won a different kind of (online) medal by coming in as the fastest trending sportsperson of the year, followed closely by swimming Olympic gold medalist, Chad le Clos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Africa overall trending searches<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OLX<\/li>\n<li>Whitney Houston<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Sandy<\/li>\n<li>Gangnam Style<\/li>\n<li>Olympics<\/li>\n<li>Velvet Sky<\/li>\n<li>Caster Semenya<\/li>\n<li>Diablo 3<\/li>\n<li>Khanyi Mbau<\/li>\n<li>iPad 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South Africa overall trending: Gadgets \u00a0&amp; phones<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ipad 3<\/li>\n<li>Samsung galaxy s3<\/li>\n<li>Samsung galaxy s2<\/li>\n<li>ipad mini<\/li>\n<li>Nokia n9<\/li>\n<li>iphone 4s<\/li>\n<li>Nokia lumia<\/li>\n<li>Blackberry 9360<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy s3<\/li>\n<li>Blackberry 9320<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South Africa overall most searched: News sites<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>News24<\/li>\n<li>Beeld<\/li>\n<li>Sowetan<\/li>\n<li>Iol<\/li>\n<li>Die burger<\/li>\n<li>Daily Mail<\/li>\n<li>Soccer laduma<\/li>\n<li>Volksblad<\/li>\n<li>Mail and Guardian<\/li>\n<li>City press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> South Africa overall trending e-commerce\/classifieds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OLX<\/li>\n<li>Gumtree<\/li>\n<li>Zando<\/li>\n<li>Groupon<\/li>\n<li>Takealot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South Africa most popular: SA Banks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FNB<\/li>\n<li>ABSA<\/li>\n<li>Standard Bank<\/li>\n<li>Nedbank<\/li>\n<li>Capitec<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"What is this Internet thing?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/27507\/what-is-this-internet-thing\/\"><strong>What is this Internet thing?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA online economy at 2.5% of GDP by 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/13871\/sa-online-economy-at-2-5-of-gdp-by-2016\/\"><strong>SA online economy at 2.5% of GDP by 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA mobile trends revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24170\/sa-mobile-trends-revealed\/\"><strong>SA mobile trends revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA's real mobile penetration revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24536\/sas-real-mobile-penetration-revealed\/\"><strong>SA\u2019s real mobile penetration revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24055\/mobile-internet-trends-in-emerging-markets\/\"><strong>Mobile Internet trends in emerging markets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search giant Google has announced its annual Zeitgeist, a list of top searches by South Africans in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882,1],"tags":[4842,3811,53,26,4472,1760,4843,111,4844,4841],"class_list":["post-28421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-trending","tag-caster-semenya","tag-chad-le-clos","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-ipad-3","tag-khanyi-mbau","tag-olx","tag-velvet-sky","tag-whitney-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28455,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28421\/revisions\/28455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}