Top 10 Google Searches of 2012

10. Games

Searches for the gaming site Friv rose dramatically this year, proving that 2012 was all about finding something to play.Image courtesy of Flickr, rvgpl

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As we near the end of the year, looking back at Google's top searches will not indicate the biggest cultural or political moments of 2012. It's far simpler than that: Google Trends simply detect why people go online.

The aggregator compiles and graphs the most popular phrases pecked into that search bar, by anybody using Google. The visual representations of this data don't show you the number or percentage of total searches; Google Trends works on a search volume basis, assigning terms a score between 1 and 100. (Note: Overtly sexual searches are omitted from the results.)

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