According to the search engine, Euro 2012 beat Olympics tickets as the top internet search of the year in the UK, the Sun reported.
The company's stats also show that pop diva Whitney Houston's death in February attracted more interest than Kate.
'Gangnam Style' beat 'Call Me Maybe' as the most trending pop song and
'Skyfall' topped 'Prometheus' as the most enquired about film.
Rio - home to the 2016 Olympics and a host city for the 2014 football
World Cup - beat Greece as the most searched-for destination.
Google's UK results are split into trending searches and most searched.
Justin Bieber's split from Selena Gomez was the most enquired-about relationship bust-up while Victoria Pendleton beat Georgia Salpa as the most searched-for participant in a reality television show.
Andy Murray's US Open victory and Olympic gold medal helped him to become the most searched-for British Olympian.
TV soaps regularly top the TV ratings but the highest trending show of 2012 was the BBC kids' show 'Mike The Knight' that beat US terror drama 'Homeland' and 'Towie.'
Most searched topics on Google: 1. Euro 2012 2. Olympic
tickets 3. Whitney Houston 4. Kate Middleton 5. April Jones 6. Netflix
7. Natwest online 8. iPad 3 9. Gary Barlow 10. Gangnam Style
Most searched celebrities on Google: 1. Whitney Houston
2. Kate Middleton 3. Gary Barlow 4. Tulisa 5. Jessica Ennis 6. Fabrice
Muamba 7. Michael Clarke Duncan 8. Morgan Freeman 9. Prince Harry 10.
Usain Bolt
Most searched UK Olympians on Google: 1. Andy Murray 2.
Tom Daley 3. Jessica Ennis 4. Mo Farah 5. Victoria Pendleton 6. Bradley
Wiggins 7. Chris Hoy 8. Rebecca Adlington 9. Laura Trott 10. Louis
Smith
Most searched non-UK Olympians on Google: 1. Usain Bolt
2. Michael Phelps 3. Roger Federer 4. Yohan Blake 5. Ryan Lochte 6.
Venus Williams 7. Rafael Nadal 8. Novak Djokovic 9. Tyson Gay 10. Missy
Franklin
Most searched Television show on Google: 1. Mike The
Knight 2. Homeland 3. Towie 4. The Jonathan Ross Show 5. Celebrity Big
Brother 6. Sherlock 7. The Great British Bake Off 8. Game Of Thrones 9.
The Big Bang Theory 10. How I Met Your Mother
Most searched films on Google: 1. Skyfall 2. Prometheus
3. The Hunger Games 4. Magic Mike 5. Take 2 6. The Avengers 7. The
Woman In Black 8. The Dictator 9. Sinister 10. The Devil Inside
Most searched divorces/break-ups on Google: 1. Justin Bieber and Selena
Gomez 2. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart 3. Tom Cruise and Katie
Holmes 4. Caroline Flack and Harry Styles 5. Johnny Depp and Vanessa
Paradis 6. Heidi Klum and Seal 7. Chantelle Houghton and Alex Reid 8.
Michelle Keegan and Max George 9. Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones 10.
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
Most searched reality TV stars on Google: 1. Victoria
Pendleton 2. Georgia Salpa 3. Danica Thrall 4. Lucy Spraggan 5. Natasha
Giggs 6. Jasmine Lennard 7. Nicola McLean 8. Andy Scott-Lee 9. Jahmene
Douglas 10. Jerry Hall
Most searched music artists on Google: 1. Lucy Spraggan
2. The Military Wives 3. Will.i.am 4. Emeli Sande 5. Psy 6. One
Direction 7. The Spice Girls 8. Muse 9. Girls Aloud 10. Dizzee Rascal
Most searched songs on Google: 1. Gangnam Style 2. Call
Me Maybe 3. Blow Me One Last Kiss 4. Beneath Your Beautiful 5. The
Official Olympic Song (Survival by Muse) 6. Skyfall 7. Somebody That I
Used To Know 8. We Are Young 9. Too Close 10. 212
Most searched travel hotspots on Google: 1. Rio de Janeiro 2. Greece 3. Brazil 4. Dubai 5. Paris 6. London 7. Bruges 8. Cornwall 9. Edinburgh 10. Barcelona
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