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Robin Williams leads Google's top searches

December 17, 2014 at 12:35AM

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2014 file photo, NASCAR President Mike Helton has buckets of ice water dumped on him by drivers Greg Biffle, left, Danica Patrick, Jamie McMurry and Jimmie Johnson as part of the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. The ALC Ice Bucket Challenge placed fifth on Google's list of 2014's fastest-rising global search requests, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Sorry Kim Kardashian, you didn't break the Internet this year. The honor of No. 1 trending search on Google actually went to Robin Williams. The Mountain View, Calif., search engine giant released its annual list of top trending items on Tuesday. Williams led the list of trending searches in the U.S. and globally, followed by the World Cup, Ebola and Malaysia Airlines. "The passing of beloved comedian and actor Robin Williams shook the world, bringing many people online to search for more information and to remember," Google said. "There was even an uptick in searches related to depression tests and mental health in the days following his death." Trending searches are the ones that had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2014 compared with 2013.

GLOBAL TRENDING SEARCHES

Robin Williams

World Cup

Ebola

Malaysia Airlines

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Flappy Bird

Conchita Wurst

ISIS

Frozen

Sochi Olympics

U.S. TRENDING SEARCHES

Robin Williams

World Cup

Ebola

Malaysia Airlines

Flappy Bird

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

ISIS

Ferguson

Frozen

Ukraine

U.S. TRENDING HOW TO …? (FYI, last year's was 'How to twerk …')

How to Airdrop

How to Contour

How to Vote

How to Kiss

How to Craft

How to Colorblock

How to Wakeboard

How to Refurbish

How to Delegate

How to DIY

U.S. TRENDING WHAT IS …?

What is Ebola?

What is ALS

What is ISIS?

What is Bitcoin?

What is Asphyxia?

What is Gamergate?

What is WhatsApp?

What is MERS?

What is Hamas?

What is Airdrop?

U.S. TRENDING CELEBRITY LOSSES

Robin Williams

Joan Rivers

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Maya Angelou

Jan Hooks

Harold Ramis

Shirley Temple

Lauren Bacall

Mickey Rooney

James Avery

U.S. TRENDING DONATIONS

Donate to ALS

Donate to Ebola

Donate to Breast Cancer

Donate to Goodwill

Donate for Veterans

Donate Blood

Donate Cars

Donate Bone Marrow

Donate Books

Donate Cellphones

GLOBAL TRENDING PEOPLE

Jennifer Lawrence

Kim Kardashian

Julie Gayet

Tracy Morgan

Renée Zellweger

Jared Leto

Lorde

Matthew McConaughey

Amal Alamuddin

Donald Sterling

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Ebola also led searches (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

FILE - In this June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group, slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. ISIS placed eighth on Google's list of 2014's fastest-rising global search requests, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo taken with slow shutter speed, athletes pass by the Olympic rings during the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The Sochi Olympics placed tenth on Google's list of 2014's fastest-rising global search requests, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Robin Williams (Associated Press file/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Jennifer Lawrence (The Minnesota Star Tribune)