The death of Cilla Black was 2015's biggest search trend in the UK, Google says.
The operator of the world's biggest search engine has revealed its breakdown of the most common searches of the year.
It said the entertainer's death at her villa in Spain in August was the most searched-for story from the past 12 months.
Lady Colin Campbell, who appeared on this year's I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! was second.
The Rugby World Cup, hosted in England in the autumn - was third.
Matt Cooke, head of Google's News Lab in London, said: "Homegrown celebrities have generated a lot of interest in particular, while the passing of well-known figures made people want to learn more about them.
"Some of the defining topics and traditions of British life, such as the General Election results, the Grand National and Jeremy Clarkson, have generated a surge in Google searches and will be remembered as events that have characterised the year."
Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter who left the BBC earlier this year, was fourth on the list, followed by November's Paris terror attacks, the iPhone 6s, and the Grand National.
The top ten trends also included summer blockbuster Jurassic World, the results of the General Election and French magazine Charlie Hebdo - which was attacked in Paris in January.
The top trending politician was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, with former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy - who died in June - in secomd place.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Ed and David Miliband, and US presidential hopeful Donald Trump also made the list.
Google deals with around 40,000 search requests every second.
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