Year-End Zeitgeist 2013 - Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker and iPhone 5s top Google Trends

Google has unveiled the results of Year-End Zeitgeist 2013, which illustrates the people, places, events and activities that captured the world's attention. Only a few have made to Google's trending list in its 13th edition of "the spirit of the times". Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker and iPhone 5s emerged as Top 3 global searches.

2013 Google Zeitgeist has presented more than 1000 top-ten lists from 72 countries with categories like Top Trending Searches, Trending People, Most Searched Events, Consumer Electronics and more. In something unique for this year, the Search Giant has combined its Zeitgeist with Google Trends. The late Cory Monteith, and the Harlem Shake rounded up the top five Trending Searches worldwide of 2013. The findings were revealed in a 2013 Zeitgeist post on Official Google Blog by Amit Singhal (+Amit Singhal), Senior Vice President and Google Fellow on 17 December 2013.



Google has made an interactive data visualization based 3D global map, displaying the top search trends of 2013 by day in cities worldwide, to enable people to parse through any major everyday popular searches. Users can readily rotate the globe, select a city and discover the subjects that made people to search on any day of the year, from international news to local sports. People take an international trip of the greatest instances from the last 12 months in their Year in Review video of 2013.