Via Reuters, the most Google’d search terms of 2011 are:
10. iPad 2
9. Steve Jobs
8. TepCo
7. Adele
6. iPhone 5
5. Battlefield 3
4. Casey Anthony
3. Ryan Dunn
2. Google Plus
1. Rebecca Black.
Some notes on these:
– Only one of the two singers is an actual singer, and she didn’t even make the top of the list.
– Steve Jobs, who died this year, revolutionized the personal computer and telephone. Ryan Dunn, who died this year, revolutionized sticking a toy car up his ass, and outpaced both the iPhone and Steve Jobs.
– And for the record, the iPhone 5 still doesn’t exist. Yes: The world searched something above everything else that doesn’t even exist, in name or concept. That’s crazy.
– Everything on the internet is awful.
fkamer@observer.com