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Google reveals New Yorkers’ top search items in 2013

From learning how to twerk to getting more information on the Boston Marathon bombing, New Yorkers’ interests spanned a wide range of topics this year, according to Google.

The tech company released data on the most popular searches by city users. Here’s some of what New Yorkers sought out on Google:

 

Top trending searches

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1) Paul Walker
2) iPhone 5s
3) Cory Monteith
4) Kidd Kraddick
5) government shutdown
6) Boston marathon
7) Adrian Peterson
8) black Friday 2013
9) Jodi Arias
10) Nelson Mandela

 

Top trending events

 

1) Boston marathon
2) Thanksgiving 2013
3) Easter 2013
4) memorial day 2013
5) Super Bowl 2013
6) Labor Day 2013<TB>
7) ACL 2013
8) SXSW 2013
9) Black Friday 2013
10) Oklahoma tornado

 

Top trending politics/news

 

1) Boston Marathon
2) Government shutdown
3) Miley Cyrus VMAs
4) Harlem Shake
5) North Korea
6) Syria
7) West Texas Explosion
8) New pope
9) Kim Kardashian baby
10) Zimmerman trial

 

Top trending people

 

1) Paul Walker
2) Cory Monteith
3) Kidd Kraddick
4) Adrian Peterson
5) Jodi Arias
6) Nelson Mandela
7) Johnny Manziel
8) Amanda Bynes
9) Aaron Hernandez
10) Miley Cyrus

 

Top trending technology

 

1) iPhone 5s
2) ios 7
3) Google fiber
4) Galaxy s4
5) Xbox One
6) Nexus 5
7) PS4
8) Bitstrips
9) Cookie Cutter
10) iPad Air

 

Top trending films

 

1) Man of Steel
2) Iron Man 3
3) World War Z
4) Pacific Rim
5) The Conjuring
6) Despicable Me 2
7) Zero Dark Thirty
8) Sharknado
9) Spring Breakers
10) Gravity

 

Top Zagat searches

 

1) Congress
2) Roaring Fork
3) Vespaio
4) Sway
5) Eddie V’s Seafood
6) Truluck’s
7) Fleming’s
8) La Condessa
9) Chuy’s
10) Hudson on the Bend

 

Top trending “what is” searches

 

1) What is twerking
2) What is doma
3) What is ricin
4) What is Passover
5) What is ms
6) What is snapchat
7) What is hashtag
8) What is bitcoin
9) What is vine
10) What is barbacoa