2013 has been a busy year.
Politicians Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela died, the royal baby was born, Andy Murray became the first British man to win a Wimbledon grand slam in 77 years and Miley Cyrus caused outrage by 'twerking' at the MTV Video Music Awards.
To round up this eventful year, Google has published its Zetigeist list, which highlights the most searched-for people, questions, events, songs, and more of the past 12 months.
And according to the list, the most popular search of 2013 was for Paul Walker, the American actor, who was killed in a car crash in 30 November
Mr Walker was listed above Apple’s iPhone 5S, the royal baby Prince George, the UK government's Universal Jobmatch site and Microsoft's Xbox One.
In the days following his death, interest in Nelson Mandela caused a surge in searches to send him to sixth on the chart of trending terms in the UK, and he topped the list of global searches.
The top trending ‘What is’ query was ‘What is twerking?’, fuelled by Miley Cyrus’ performance on this year’s VMAs in August.
‘What is my IP’, which stands for Internet Protocol and is the address used by computers to access the web, and ‘What is YOLO’, the acronym for You Only Live Once were second and third
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