Miley Cyrus twerked her way to the top of Canadian searches in 2013,
according to a year-in-review released Tuesday by Yahoo Canada
The controversial singer with the restless tongue landed in the search
engine’s No. 1 position, followed by disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Rounding
out the Top 10 were BlackBerry, Kim Kardashian, Fifty Shades of Grey, New
iPhone, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, Kate Middleton, Kate Upton and Syria.
The annual review also broke out the year’s buzziest news stories,
most-followed economic and political issues, biggest newsmakers, national
obsessions, oddest searches, top sports stories and sports figures, and hottest
movies, based on in-country searches (Yahoo would not reveal the exact number; last
year, however, it was around 400 million).
“Canadians really enjoy homegrown stories, but they also have international
interests,” said Claude Galipeau, country manager for Yahoo Canada. “We’re able
to see, by putting together these searches, our society in motion through
online behaviour.”
Bynes
How young Cyrus topped this year’s list is hardly a mystery, given
headline-making stunts involving everything from the molestation of construction
equipment to self gratification with a foam finger.But the star’s bygone days
as a Disney darling – think Hannah Montana – apparently also contributed to her
search supremacy.
“There’s still keen interest in her early persona and characters, as well as
the emerging ‘new’ Miley,”
