Cilla Black tops UK Google Search in 2015

Cilla Black was the UK's top-trending search term on Google in 2015, according to the tech firm's annual review of its users' activity.

 

Cilla Black,the singer and TV star died in August aged 72 following a stroke.

Lady Colin Campbell was the second most popular term in the UK after the socialite appeared on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.

The top 10 terms searched for by UK-based users were:

1. Cilla Black
2. Lady Colin Campbell
3. Rugby World Cup - which took place between September and October
4. Jeremy Clarkson - who was dropped from Top Gear in March after punching one of the show's producers
5. Paris - in relation to November's terror attacks
6. iPhone 6S - which was released in November
7. Grand National 2015 - the horse race that occurred in April
8. Jurassic World - the hugely successful dinosaur movie sequel
9. Election results - following the UK general election in May
10. Charlie Hebdo

The search firm also provides topic-specific breakdowns, which reveal:

• Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was the most searched-for politician
• "How to lose belly fat" was the most queried "how to" phrase
• "Who is Lucy the Australopithecus" was the most submitted "who is" request, relating to the three-million-year-old fossil believed to be an ancient ancestor of the human race