Google’s Top 10 Searches for 2014, Flappy Bird is first ever mobile app on lists

At the end of every year, Google releases a list of topics that we’ve collectively searched for during the year. If you keep in touch with the latest news, it’s not very difficult to know which topics would have been the most popular.

As for 2014, Google released two lists: worldwide as well as US search trends. That said, there’s very little between these two lists.

That said, here’s the list of trending US searches:

#1: Robin Williams

#2: World Cup

#3: Ebola

#4: Malaysia Airlines

#5: Flappy Bird

#6: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

#7: ISIS

#8: Ferguson

#9: Frozen

#10: Ukraine

As for Global trending searches for 2014:

#1: Robin Williams

#2: World Cup

#3: Ebola

#4: Malaysia Airlines

#5: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

#6: Flappy Bird

#7: Conchita Wurst

#8: ISIS

#9: Frozen

#10: Sochi Olympics

As you can see, the global list looked for Sochi Olympics and Conchita Wurst in place of Ferguson and Ukraine. Apart from this, both these lists were almost identical when compared.

For the last five years, an Apple product has always made the list whether it was the iPhone, iPad 3 as well as the iPhone 5S. However, this was the first year when this trend did not repeat itself.

Quite interestingly, Flappy Birds is the first mobile app to make it onto this Google list ever. It’s one thing to have a successful app but to have it feature in Google’s Top 10 list is probably the best achievement ever.

In fact, Google also recorded the fact that both Flappy Birds and 2048, created by one person in each instance, beat Destiny which is the most expensive videogame made ever.