The European football championships this summer were the most frequently googled search term in the Netherlands this year while Eurovision casualty Joost Klein snaps up second place and comes first in the most googled Dutch celebrity category.

The Olympic Games in Paris garnered enough searches to warrant third place while fourth place fell to the recently deceased singer One Direction singer Liam Payne.

Chinese fast fashion webshop Temu was googled enough times to come in at fifth place while people who had €€€€€ to spend on the new iPhone 16, and those who wish they did, googled the device into sixth place.

The phone is followed by Ali B, and who was one of the protagonists in the Voice of Holland abuse scandal and was jailed for assault and rape.

Dick Schoof was googled enough times to put him in eighth place, perhaps because no one knew who the new prime-minister was

On number 9 is Sifan Hassan, who boosted Dutch battered national pride with her spectacular Olympic win and also went on to become Athlete of the Year.

The European Elections in June concluded the top 10 of most googled terms, with the resulting outcome a win for GroenLinks-PvdA alliance and a second place for the PVV.

Among the “how” questions “how to vote in the Dutch elections” came first, while in the “what” category puzzled googlers wanted to know what Flakka is.

Among the weird “why” questions the number one spot went to “Why were cornflakes invented” with an honourable mention for “Why do football socks have holes?”