Top who, what and how-tos Pinoys Googled in 2016

PPAP, pak ganern and Pokemon Go

In the Philippines, notable on the list of most-asked questions were about people and challenges that went viral this year. The top 4 and 8 most popular "How tos" asked were "How to play Pokemon Go" and "How to do the Running Man challenge."

Meanwhile, the photogenic Carrot Man, Jeyrick Sigmaton in real life, was the sixth most Googled "Who is" query. Sigmaton is a Mountain Province farmer who turned into an internet sensation after a photo of him carrying a basket of carrots on his back was posted on social media by the tourist who took it. 

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Pop culture terms like hugot lines and pak ganern were among the popular "What" questions Filipinos searched the most.

Celebrities and movie characters were also among the most searched. Actress Marion Cotillard, the top 8 "Who is" query, was most popularly searched in September coinciding with news of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce. Cotillard was rumored to have been one of the reasons behind the famous couple's split.

Film characters Harley Quinn of "Suicide Squad" and Valak and Anna Fritz of horror flicks "Conjuring 2" and "The Corpse of Anna Fritz", respectively were also popular "Who is" searches. The three films were also the top 2, 4 and 7 most Googled movies in the country, respectively.

Interest on local and global issues was also high such as election results, federalism  — a campaign vow of President Rodrigo Duterte  — and Brexit, a portmanteau of the words Britain and exit, the referendum on whether the United Kingdom should leave the European Union.

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The top 10 "How To" most searched in Google were: