Here's the countdown of Top 10 Google's Zeitgeist Most Searched Globally 2012
| 10. BBB12 Big Brother Brasil 12 was the twelfth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 10, 2012 with the season finale airing March 29, 2012 on the Rede Globo television network. The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial. The season is officially confirmed since 2008 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo, which guaranteed seasons until 2012. |
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| 9. Michael Clarke Duncan Michael Clarke Duncan was an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe |
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| 8. Amanda Todd Amanda Todd committed suicide on October 10, 2012 at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell of her experience of being blackmailed, bullied, and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death, resulting in international media attention. |
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| 7. Olympics 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It took place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stage in women's football, began two days earlier, on 25 July. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated |
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| 6. Kate Middleton KATE Middleton has appeared topless and almost naked in a number of different magazines this past month… so we’d thought we here at Showbiz Spy thought we’d give you a chance to look through them all, on the same page. Scroll through below for images of Kate Middleton naked in France’s Closer magazine, Italy’s CHI and Denmark’s Se Og Hor |
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| 5. Diablo 3 With BlizzCon running and Diablo III in development, naturally fans are clamouring for any bites of information they can get however none has surfaced. However, Lead Designer Jay Wilson recently told G4 that there would be a closed Beta for Diablo III. |
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| 4. iPad 3 iPad 3 launch had a wider purpose than introducing an upgraded tablet. It was Apple's most coherent effort yet to bind its family of screens closer together, in a way that prepares the ground for the world's largest technology company to disrupt the world's most important entertainment medium – broadcasting. Tim Cook introduced his concept of the "post PC era". With growing numbers of tablet computers and smartphones, the humble desktop computer is no longer the centre of our digital world. All our screens have become computers, and that revolution is coming to the television set. |
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| 3. Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy was a hurricane that devastated portions of the Caribbean and the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States during late October 2012, with lesser impacts in the Southeastern and Midwestern states and Eastern Canada. Sandy, classified as the eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, was a Category 2 storm at its peak intensity. While it was a Category 1 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)) |
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| 2. Gangnam Style "Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일, IPA: [kaŋnam sɯtʰail]) is a K-pop single by the South Korean musician PSY. The song was released in July 2012 as the lead single of his sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1, and debuted at number one on South Korea's Gaon Chart. On December 21, 2012, at around 15:50 UTC, "Gangnam Style" became the first video in the history of the Internet to be viewed more than a billion times. As of December 22, 2012, the music video has been viewed over 1.03 billion times on YouTube, and it is the site's most watched video after surpassing Justin Bieber's single "Baby". |
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| 1. Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time |
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