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    Sports, entertainment top search in 2016: Google

    Google India released the 2016 recap of trending stories on December 14 — biggest moments, major events and user’s interests based on trillions of searches made by Indians on Google this year.

    Sports, entertainment top search in 2016: Google
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    Salman Khan in Sultan; (inset) Dipa Karmakar

    Chennai

    Extending unprecedented support to the Indian contingent this year, Indians moved beyond Cricket, as Rio Olympics 2016 emerged as the top trending search query on Google in 2016. Following up close was a game that took the world by storm, Pokemon Go. 

    US President Donald Trump emerged on top of the list of trending personalities. Following him were the world-class performances by Indian female athletes at the Olympics. Indian badminton star and Olympic medallist, PV Sindhu took the second spot in the overall trending personality searches while Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar took the fourth spot. In movies and entertainment, Bollywood star Salman Khan with his blockbuster film Sultan captured the peak position among top trending movies followed closely by Thalaiva Rajinikanth’s blockbuster film Kabali. 

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