Prospective health care workers in the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre are shown being tested on their personal protection equipment procedure in Sierra Leone. Ebola placed third on Google’s list of 2014’s fastest-rising global search requests.
Google has released its annual list of the year’s fastest-rising search requests. Although Google’s list usually comes last each year among other search engines and sites, its rankings typically provide more telling insights into what people were thinking because the company’s technology processes about two out of every three search requests made on the Internet.
The top global trending searches for 2014 were:
Robin Williams
World Cup
Ebola
Malaysia Airlines
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Flappy Bird
Conchita Wurst
ISIS
Frozen
Sochi Olympics
The top U.S. trending searches for 2014 were:
Robin Williams
World Cup
Ebola
Malaysia Airlines
Flappy Bird
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
ISIS
Ferguson
Frozen
Ukraine
