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Apple Products Dominate 2012 Bing Searches

Bing details its most-searched topics of the year, including social media and consumer electronics.

November 27, 2012

As the nation reflects on the year that was, search engine Bing has revealed the most-searched terms of 2012, and Apple remains on top.

Among the top 10 consumer electronics Binged this year, Cupertino's products made up half the list thanks to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod.

Samsung and Amazon are not to be overlooked, though, as the Galaxy S III and the Kindle filled out the top five; Microsoft's Xbox and , as well as the Sony PlayStation 3, also made the list.

"People's fascination with the latest smartphones, tablets and game consoles remains unfettered in 2012," the Bing team wrote in a blog post detailing all of its Top Searches of 2012 categories, including sports stars, Olympians, news stories, and fashion.

Mass hysteria about the reached beyond this fall. The sixth-generation smartphone was the most-searched gadget this year, as well as the No. 1 news item. The device beat out the 2012 Election, Hurricane Sandy, and even the Gangnam style dance to become the most popular search term of the past 12 months.

Behind the 2012 Olympics and the Academy Awards, the and the much-maligned also fell into the top 10 news items.

Meanwhile, social media has proven to still be a hot topic, with Facebook in the No. 1 spot, followed by Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr. "New features and a much-buzzed-about IPO had Facebook at the top of its 1 billion users' newsfeeds all year, and helped it come in as the number one most-searched social network," Microsoft said.

While it might seem odd that MySpace beat the No. 6 Instagram, the struggling company with an impressive preview of its newly designed social network.

Three of the top five app searches, meanwhile, were for music players: Pandora, I Heart Radio, and Spotify.

On the non-tech front, reality starlet Kim Kardashian beat out pop star Justin Bieber to become the most-searched person of 2012 on Bing. Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Lindsay Lohan rounded out the top five.

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