Google has released its , cataloging what the world was searching for online this year.
And sure, while Austin has its share of and fans (Houston and the song from Korean rapper PSY being the world鈥檚 top two search terms), Austin residents made plenty of queries closer to home.
Without further ado, here鈥檚 the top 10 most searched terms in Austin in 2012:
Creating that list was a little more complicated than just naming top search terms though. "Google used data from multiple sources, including the public tool, and internal data tools," according to Alison Langdon from The Monument Group, which announced the Austin rankings. "They filtered out spam and repeat queries to build lists that best reflect the spirit of 2012."
Austin was one of 23 major U.S. cities Google released results for 鈥� although counterintuitively, those results aren't available online.
Last year, Google acquired restaurant survey and review company . To that end, Google has also released a separate list of the most searched Austin restaurants on Zagat. And :
