A Year in UAE’s Search: Google's Top Searches of 2012

Gangnam Style, Whitney Houston and Hamdan Al Kimaly top the 2012 trending list for search queries

Today, Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2012 through the collective eyes of UAE residents on the web, offering a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted in the UAE.

This year's trending searches show growing interest in political and social issues within the Arab world as well as globally in addition to a rising interest in electronic gadgets and entertainment news. This year’s Google Zeitgeist reveals that Emiratis are turning to the Internet as their number one source of information on-the-go.

Google’s top searches of 2012 in the UAE showcased the top 10 findings for trending search terms, trending people, TV shows, sports teams, athletes, Emirati Olympians, foods, travel destinations and fashion labels.

UAE’s Top Trending Query

Gangnam Style

 

UAE’s Top Trending Person

Whitney Houston

UAE’s Most Searched TV Show

Omar Series

UAE’s Most Searched Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo

UAE’s Most Searched Sports Team

Barcelona

UAE’s Most Searched Emirati Olympian

Hamdan Al Kimaly

UAE’s Top Trending Travel Destination

Al Ain Al Sokhna

UAE’s Top Trending Food Search

Baklava

UAE’s Top Trending Fashion Label

Isabel Marant

You can find out the top 10 most-searched terms for each category by visiting the Google Zeitgeist website on googlezeitgeist.com and checking out the UAE tab for more in-depth information.

In addition showcasing what people were curious about in UAE, Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics captured the world’s attention in 2012. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage, googlezeitgeist.com -- from most-searched travel destinations in Brazil, to trending Australian celebrities, to most-searched Egyptian Olympians, to top tech gadgets in Japan and everything in between.

To see more information about Google Zeitgeist across the globe, use interactive data visualizations and to watch our annual video, visit googlezeitgeist.com.