Here are Google's most popular search terms for 2016

Google has rolled out its top searches for 2016, highlighting the people, topics, news, musicians, TV shows, and tech products we searched for the most this year. As you can probably imagine, Niantic's Pokémon Go led the way for global searches, followed by the iPhone 7, and Donald Trump.

Global

Top searches of 2016

  • Pokémon Go
  • iPhone 7
  • Donald Trump
  • Prince
  • Powerball

Top people searches of 2016

  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Michael Phelps
  • Melania Trump
  • Simone Biles

Top consumer tech searches of 2016

  • iPhone 7
  • Freedom 251
  • iPhone SE
  • iPhone 6S
  • Google Pixel

Top TV show searches of 2016

  • Stranger Things
  • Westworld
  • Luke Cage
  • Game of Thrones
  • Black Mirror

USA

Top searches of 2016

  • Powerball
  • Prince
  • Hurricane Matthew
  • Pokeman Go
  • Slither.io

Top people searches of 2016

  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Michael Phelps
  • Bernie Sanders
  • Steven Avery

Top consumer tech searches of 2016

  • iPhone SE
  • iOS 10
  • Google Pixel
  • iPhone 7 Plus
  • Nintendo Switch

Top TV show searches of 2016

  • Stranger Things
  • Making a Murderer
  • Fuller House
  • Westworld
  • The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Canada

Top searches of 2016

  • Donald Trump
  • Pokémon Go
  • Toronto Raptors
  • Fort McMurray Fire
  • Prince

Top consumer tech searches of 2016

  • iPhone 7
  • Samsung Galaxy S7
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 7
  • Google Pixel
  • Nintendo Switch

Top TV show searches of 2016

  • Stranger Things
  • Westworld
  • Girlmore Girls
  • Fuller House
  • Luke Cage

UK

Top news searches of 2016

  • Brexit
  • US election
  • Hurricaine Matthew
  • Zika virus
  • Clowns

Top consumer tech searches of 2016

  • iPhone
  • Samsung Galaxy
  • Google Pixel
  • Sky Q
  • Amazon Echo

India

Top searches of 2016

  • Rio 2016 Olympics
  • Pokémon GO
  • EURO 2016
  • Sultan
  • Kabali

Top people searches of 2016

  • Donald Trump
  • P.V. Sindhu
  • Sonam Gupta
  • Dipa Karmakar
  • Disha Patani

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Harish Jonnalagadda
Senior Editor - Asia

Harish Jonnalagadda is a Senior Editor overseeing Asia at Android Central. He leads the site's coverage of Chinese phone brands, contributing to reviews, features, and buying guides. He also writes about storage servers, audio products, and the semiconductor industry. Contact him on Twitter at @chunkynerd.