Yandex analysts summed up and published a rating of the most popular queries of the year. Some lines from the rating do not lose popularity over the years, for example, the query “What is love”, while others aroused interest among users for only a few months.
The most popular queries of 2012 on Yandex divided into categories dedicated to people, events and phenomena, as well as the eternal questions “Who?”, “What?” and why?".
So, today we will find out what people most often searched for this year.
12. Memes and Lulz
Memes - These are sometimes meaningless, but mega-popular phrases that are distributed on the Internet in all possible ways. Lulza - The concept adopted in the network to denote quality humor.
11. Athletes
The outgoing year 2012 turned out to be rich in sporting events: the London Olympics, the European Football Championship, the UEFA Champions League, the Dakar Race 2012. The list of the most popular athletes from Yandex was headed by Fedor Emelianenko, who in 2012 announced the end of his career in mixed martial arts.
10. “What?”
We have long been accustomed to searching the Internet for answers to any question. One of the most intriguing queries in this category is “What is 228”. The number 228, which is extremely popular among young people in Runet, is nothing more than the article number of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for penalties for the storage, manufacture, transportation and processing of narcotic substances.
9. Matches (score)
We do not always have time to see the long-awaited game, therefore, it has long been a good tradition to find out the score on the Internet. The most popular queries of 2012 on Yandex in this category are devoted to Euro 2012 matches, the Champions League final and the performance of Russian hockey players in a match with the Czechs.
8. Films
Among the popular queries were many of the films that were noted in the ranking of the best films of 2012. It is quite possible that for the time remaining until the end of the year, the top ten queries will include films of New Year themes.
7. Premieres
Surprisingly, iPhone5 lost the lead in the top ten most popular premier project webvybory2012. In March, the site was used for broadcasting from polling stations in the presidential election, and in October 2012 it resumed work to demonstrate local elections in 7 constituent entities of the Federation.
6. Women
Actresses, singers, wives and just public persons. As the popularity rating of queries shows, external data has nothing to do with it. Four lines in the top ten are occupied by women who tragically passed away.
5. Men
Someone attracted attention by participating in interesting projects, someone by scandals, and someone, alas, an untimely death. So, Ilya Oleynikov, the top ten deceased in November, is in the lead.
4. "Who?"
The winner in this category was the adult movie star Sasha Gray. It is noteworthy that the top ten most popular queries on the topic “Who” are closed by the President of the African Republic, Chad Francois Tombalbai, who was killed in 1975 during a military coup.
3. “Why?”
One of the popular queries on Yandex with the word “Why” has not been leaving the top ten for 4 years already. At a press conference in February 2008, Vladimir Putin uttered the phrase: "... I plowed like a slave ...". The president’s words were immediately reversed, and a request appeared in RuNet: “Why is Putin a crab?”.
2. Music
The most popular searches for 2012 on Yandex reflect the musical preferences of the online community. The leader is a crazy dialogue to the music of Intigam and Ehtiram Rustamov, the poorly speaking Russian brothers, captured during a wedding in a small Azerbaijani village.
1. Events
The presidential election was only slightly ahead of Eurovision 2012 in popularity.
Probably, by the end of December, the popularity of another, as yet unlikely event, the end of the world, will noticeably increase.
