Miley Cyrus did it, Lily Allen refused to do it, one London gym started offering lessons in it. And on Tuesday twerking – the frenetic, buttock-wiggling dance – also topped Google’s list of the trends that Britons were trying to discover the meaning of online this year.Essentially, a lot of people had no idea what it was and at some point during the year decided they had better find out – firing ‘what is twerking?’ to the top of one of Google’s annual Zeitgeist lists.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/twerking-2013-google-search-rankingsAlso see:Google reveals Kiwis’ top search terms
America’s Cup was New Zealand’s most popular search term on Google in 2013.
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