Robin Williams Was 2014's Top Google Search
7:00 AM PST 12/16/2014 by Natalie Jarvey

Robin Williams Top Online Searches - H 2014
The search giant has released its comprehensive trending list for the fourteenth year
Following the Aug. 11 death of Robin Williams the actor became the most-searched topic of 2014 on Google.
The search giant revealed Tuesday its 14th annual Year in Search with a number of lists about trending topics throughout 2014. The most-searched topics reflect the biggest events and moments of the year. After Williams, rounding out the top 5 topics were the World Cup in Brazil, Ebola, Malaysia Airlines and addictive mobile game Flappy Bird.
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To most-searched person of the year was actress Jennifer Lawrence. No. 2 on the list, which excludes people who died in 2014, was Kim Kardashian, and rounding out the top three was comedian Tracy Morgan, who sustained a number of injuries following a deadly car accident in June.
The biggest movies of the year, according to Google, were Disney animated hit Frozen, Christopher Nolan directed sci-fi drama Interstellar, Shailene Woodley starrer Divergent, David Fincher directed adaptation Gone Girl and Mark Wahlberg war film Lone Survivor. Meanwhile, trailers for Gone Girl, Interstellar, Divergent, Frozen and The Lego Movie topped the most-searched trailer list.
The most-searched TV shows of the year were: HBO's Game of Thrones, Fusion comedy news program No, You Shut Up!, crime drama True Detective, Netflix's Orange is the New Black and Bravo reality series Blood, Sweat & Heels.
Google even broke down some specific categories, including trending celebrity pregnancies, where Mila Kunis took the No. 1 spot for her child with Ashton Kutcher, and trending weddings, which was topped by Kardashian's marriage to Kanye West in May.
Here are all of Google's 2014 entertainment lists:
Trending Searches
- Robin Williams
- World Cup
- Ebola
- Malaysia Airlines
- Flappy Bird
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- ISIS
- Ferguson
- Frozen
- Ukraine
Trending People*
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Kim Kardashian
- Tracy Morgan
- Ray Rice
- Tony Stewart
- Iggy Azalea
- Donald Sterling
- Adrian Peterson
- Renee Zellweger
- Jared Leto
*not including deaths
Top Music Festivals
- Coachella
- Mysteryland
- Boston Calling
- Hard Summer
- Electric Forest
- Firefly Music Festival
- Austin City Limits
- South by Southwest
- Outside Lands
- Fun Fun Fun Fest
Trending Podcasts
- Serial podcast
- Steve Austin podcast
- Startup podcast
- Jim Ross podcast
- John Batchelor podcast
- Shane and Friends podcast
- True Detective podcast
- Night Vale podcast
- Ask Women podcast
- Tim Ferris podcast
Trending Actors
- Jared Leto
- Matthew McConaughey
- Macaulay Culkin
- Chris Pratt
- Theo James
- Ansel Elgort
- Jamie Dornan
- Alfonso Ribeiro
- James McAvoy
- Laurence Fishburne
Trending Actresses
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Renee Zellweger
- Betty White
- Ellen Page
- Kim Novak
- Margot Robbie
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Lena Dunham
- Melanie Griffith
- Lea Thompson
Trending Red Carpet Dresses
- Rihanna
- Lorde
- Lupita
- Madonna
- Pharrell
- Zendaya
- Kingsley
- Solange
- Lebron
- Kesha
Trending Movies of 2014
- Frozen
- Interstellar
- Divergent
- Gone Girl
- Lone Survivor
- Godzilla
- 22 Jump Street
- Big Hero 6
- Annabelle
- Maleficent
Trending Movie Trailers
- Gone Girl trailer
- Interstellar trailer
- Divergent trailer
- Frozen trailer
- The Lego Movie trailer
- The Avengers 2 trailer
- Godzilla trailer
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Trailer
- Annabelle trailer
- Maleficent trailer
Trending Music Artists
- Iggy Azalea
- Lorde
- Sam Smith
- Meghan Trainor
- Solange Knowles
- Nicki Minaj
- Weird Al
- Sia
- Daft Punk
- Taylor Swift
Trending Song Lyrics of 2014
- Say Something
- Anaconda
- Fancy
- Happy
- Blank Space
- Royals
- Dark Horse
- Bang Bang
- Counting Stars
- Wrecking Ball
Trending Weddings of 2014
- Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
- George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
- Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard
- Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker
- Lauren Conrad and William Tell
- Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo
- Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson
- Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson
- Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting
Trending Celebrity Pregnancies
- Mila Kunis
- Ciara
- Kourtney Kardashian
- Kate Middleton
- Kerry Washington
- Carrie Underwood
- Scarlett Johansson
- Hayden Panettiere
- Blake Lively
- Eva Mendes
Trending Losses 2014
- Robin Williams
- Joan Rivers
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Maya Angelou
- Jan Hooks
- Harold Ramis
- Shirley Temple
- Lauren Bacall
- Mickey Rooney
- James Avery
Top TV Shows
- Game of Thrones
- No, You Shut Up!
- True Detective
- Orange is the New Black
- Blood, Sweat & Heels
- The Following
- House of Cards
- Gotham
- South Park
- American Horror Story