The death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately and Microsoft's Bing were the fastest rising search topics on Google's UK site in 2009. Google's annual "zeitgeist", which analyses the firm's search trends, also revealed that swine flu was the story that dominated UK news headlines.
In the UK, Google dominates the search market with around 90% of the market.
The search giant revealed that the most searched for terms in the UK during 2009 were dominated by web firms.
Searches included Hotmail, eBay, Yahoo and social network Bebo. The
fastest rising search queries of the year included the BBC's iPlayer
and Bing.
Excerpts taken from BBC UK site. Full article can be found here.
