Rebecca Black, Google+, and Justin Bieber Among Most Wanted

2011 is almost out the door and Google has brought out their annual list to show what people spent most of the year searching for. Check it out and see if you followed the trends.

Google recently shared the results of various searches through the year, revealing that different celebrities and politicians ruled the search bar at different times. According to ABC News, the lists don’t actually represent the most-searched topics but provide a summary of topics that rose quickly through the ranks.

When it comes to a nobody becoming an instant somebody through the power of the Internet, Rebecca Black claims the #1 spot on the ‘Fastest Rising Searches of 2011′, and people apparently liked what they saw when they had the misfortune of stumbling across her Friday video because she also shows up on fastest rising searches for Google Images. However, she didn’t make the ‘Most Popular People’ list, which seems to focus on those celebs that have spent some considerable time in the spotlight.

Wondering which celeb is considered most popular? Almost every teen girl in the world probably knows that answer because it’s none other than Justin Bieber, who also landed on the Google Images list, although that search was specifically for Justin Bieber 2011. I guess people were wanting to keep up-to-date with his ever-changing hairstyle?

Take a look at the lists below and see if you helped boost the numbers of any of these topics, and then notice how the people at Yahoo came up with a slightly different list. Do people really still use the Yahoo search engine to look for stuff?

Fastest Rising Searches of 2011:

1. Rebecca Black
2. Google+
3. Hurricane Irene
4. Pinterest
5. Ryan Dunn
6. iPhone 5
7. Casey Anthony
8. Adele
9. Osama bin Laden
10. Steve Jobs

Fastest Rising Politics Searches:

1. Herman Cain
2. Rep Giffords
3. Obama jobs plan
4. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
5. Cheri Daniels
6. Issue 2
7. Huma Abedin
8. Rick Perry
9. Wisconsin news 2012
10. Republican candidates

Google Images: Fastest Rising Searches:

1. Planking
2. Kate Upton
3. Justin Bieber 2011
4. Pippa Middleton
5. Hope Solo
6. Ryan Dunn
7. Mariah Carey twins
8. Rebecca Black
9. Casey Anthony
10. Royal Wedding

Most Popular People:

1. Justin Bieber
2. Kim Kardashian
3. Lady Gaga
4. Nicki Minaj
5. Casey Anthony
6. Selena Gomez
7. Charlie Sheen
8. Steve Jobs
9. Amy Winehouse
10. Ryan Dunn

The Yahoo Top-Ten List:

1. iPhone
2. Casey Anthony
3. Kim Kardashian
4. Katy Perry
5. Jennifer Lopez
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. American Idol
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Japan earthquake
10. Osama bin Laden