Robin Williams tops Google Canada’s 2014 trending list

With over two trillion searches done around the world in 2014, what got Canadians talking this year? The passing of Robin Williams had Canadians looking him up and making him the highest-trending search term for the year. The World Cup and Winter Olympics also made it to the Top Trending Searches list. Listed below are some of the highlights of Google Canada’s year in search:

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Google helps ease the pain of Brazilians over World Cup loss, filters search trend news

Google said they don’t want to rub salt to the wounds of Brazil after its horrifying loss to Germany in the World Cup semi-finals. Google told NPR that the company’s experimental social newsroom has avoided covering some of the bigger Brazil-related search trends during the match because they were too negative. Producer Sam Clohesy said the decision was made based on pure sympathy and the desire to go viral.