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World Service,3 mins

Google reveals most searched terms of 2016

World Business Report

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What do you think was the most searched for word or phrase on Google this year? Some major world event perhaps? Brexit? The US election? Donald Trump maybe? Well it was none of those actually. It was in fact the mobile game Pokemon Go. The 麻豆社's Mike Johnson heard more about how Google comes up with its list of the world's most popular searches, from the company's spokeswoman Alina Dimofte. (Picture: A Google building. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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