In 2018 Priya Varrier, PeeCee and FIFA were the most searched on Google

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Malayalam actor Priya Prakash Varrier, actress Priyanka Chopra and her spouse Nick Jonas were among the most searched personalities by Indians in 2018 on Google, while FIFA and Bitcoin were most searched terms.

India’s ‘Year in Search’ results, released by the search engine on Wednesday, recapping the top search trends of 2018 in India, are based on search terms that had the highest spike this year as compared to the previous year.

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Varrier, who topped the list for her ‘wink’ that went viral and turned her into an overnight sensation, was followed by Jonas, American singer and songwriter who married to Priyanka Chopra in December.

Football swept cricket in the overall search listing, with queries around Football World Cup topping those around the cricketing action during the IPL season.

Other most searched on Google

  • Top trending: dominated by sports and entertainment
  • Leading queries: around FIFA World Cup 2018 followed by Indian Premier League (IPL), Karnataka elections
  • Entertainment: Big Boss, surpassing queries related to the Rajinikanth/Akshay Kumar blockbuster Robot 2.0

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  • Personalities: PeeCee came in at fourth place, Haryanvi dancer and singer Sapna Choudhary was the third, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle figured in the list
  • Bollywood blockbusters: Robot 2.0 followed by Baaghi 2 and Race 3,
  • Hollywood entries: Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, and Deadpool 2.
  • Songs: Neha Kakkar’s Dilbar Dilbar, Arijit Singh’s Tera Fitoor and Atif Aslam’s Dekhte Dekhte from Bollywood. Lone English entrant was Latin hit song Despacito
  • Topics: Celebrity weddings (Priyanka Chopra/Nick Jonas, Deepika Padukone/Ranveer Kapoor, and Sonam Kapoor/Anand Ahuja), world’s largest statue, the Statue of Unity, striking down of Section 377, the union budget, bitcoin, as well as the Nipah virus.
  • Search terms: questions spanning from ‘How to link Aadhar with Mobile number’ ‘How to invest in bitcoin’ to ‘What is the kiki challenge’, and ‘What is me too campaign.’
  • Near me queries: mobile stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and cash points, with jobs also figuring in the list.

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