Actress Ariana Grande heads Google list of most searched for terms

GoogleThe American actress Ariana Grande from the Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat was the most searched for term on Google in the Netherlands in 2014.

Google handles three billion search requests a day and compiles a list of the most popular terms per country at the end of each year.

In second place was iPhone 6, followed by love. Then came happy birthday, congratulations, flowers, football, Sinterklaas, Minecraft and The End.

The top three fastest rising terms were World Cup 2014, Utopia (a Dutch tv reality show) and iPhone 6. Ice skater Sven Kramer, singer Ilse de Lange (second at Eurovision with The Common Linnets) and Dave Roelvink (son of singer Dries and involved in an uploaded sex video) were also popular search terms.

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