It’s the last month of the year, the perfect time for search engines to take a look back, analyze everything we’ve been searching for, and uncover the year’s most popular searches. I already presented 2015’s most popular searches on Bing and now I’m going to focus on Yahoo!

Yahoo! analyzed this year’s billions of searches and published the results on Tumblr (which it acquired for $1.1 billion a couple of years ago). Last year, Yahoo! published the year’s top searches on the 2014 Year in Review website. This year, it published them on a Tumblr page called A Year On Yahoo! 2015. It presents the year’s most searched celebrities, top searched questions, top searched gadgets, and more.

Top Searches

1. Bobbi Kristina Brown
2. iPhone
3. Caitlyn Jenner
4. Kendall Jenner
5. Minecraft
6. Jennifer Aniston
7. Kim Kardashian
8. Katy Perry
9. Ronda Rousey
10. Farrah Abraham

2014’s top search was about Ebola. Heard anything about Ebola lately? Yeah, me neither. Isn’t it curious how everyone was panicked about Ebola and now… nobody cares anymore.

If you don’t know who Bobbi Kristina Brown is, let me quickly put things in perspective. She is Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston’s daughter. She died this year, at the age of 22.

Top Searched Questions

1. How do you tie a tie?
2. How many ounces in a gallon?
3. How many ounces in a pound?
4. How many ounces in a cup?
5. What color is the dress?
6. What is cloud computing?
7. When is Easter 2015?
8. When is the Super Bowl 2015?
9. How many weeks in a year?
10. How much water should you drink daily?

I learned how to tie by watching a YouTube video. Speaking of which, I should mention that the second most searched tutorial on YouTube is “how to tie a tie.” The number one most searched tutorial is… see here.


Top Searched Tech Gadgets

1. iPhone 6
2. Windows 10
3. iPhone 7
4. Samsung Galaxy S6
5. Apple Watch
6. iPhone 5
7. iPad Air 2
8. Microsoft Xbox ONE
9. PlayStation 4
10. Amazon Kindle

There are all sorts of rumors going around, saying that the iPhone 7 will have radical design changes, that it will be the thinnest iPhone ever, that it won’t have a headphone jack, that it will have wireless charging, and that USB Type-C will replace the Lightning connector. This happens every year. Rumors go around saying that Apple will drastically redesign the iPhone; and when the new iPhone comes out, it isn’t that different from the previous model.

Top Searched Celebrities (Male)

1. Scott Disick
2. Lamar Odom
3. Tiger Woods
4. Justin Bieber
5. Tim Tebow
6. Robing Williams
7. Kanye West
8. Peyton Manning
9. Josh Duggar
10. Ben Affleck

Top Searched Celebrities (Female)

1. Bobbi Kristina Brown
   
2. Caitlyn Jenner
   
3. Kendall Jenner
   
4. Jennifer Aniston
   
5. Kim Kardashian
   
6. Katy Perry
   
7. Ronda Rousey
   
8. Farrah Abraham
   
9. Britney Spears
   
10. Scarlett Johansson

You just can’t escape the Kardashians. The top 2 most searched male celebrities, Scott Disick and Lamar Odom, they are or they once were part of the Kardashian family. The list of top searched female celebrities includes Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner), Kendall Jenner, and Kim Kardashian herself.

Top Searched Video Games

1. Minecraft
2. Animal Jam
3. Clash of Clans
4. Candy Crush Saga
5. League of Legends
6. GTA 5
7. Forge of Empires
8. Words with Friends
9. Mortal Kombat
10. Plants vs Zombies

What, nothing about Fallout 4? That’s what I’m playing right now and I think I’m going to be playing it for plenty of time to come. It took me about half a year to be done with Skyrim and I estimate it will take about the same with Fallout 4, seeing that I don’t plan to cheat.


Top Obsessions/Crazes

1. Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Halftime Sharks
2. Starbucks Holiday Cup
3. Man Bun
4. What color is the dress?
5. Whip/Nae Nae
6. Jurassic World
7. Back to the Future
8. Drake Dancing
9. Cecil the Lion
10. Dad Bod

Visit A Year On Yahoo! 2015 for more top-searched lists, including top searched cocktails and top searched bacon recipes.