Events (in bold) described incoming searches to guardian.co.uk.
Theory:- users look for events by typing the key person or thing involved in to Google. Google suggests a bit of recent news.
- Tour de France 2012, 140k
- Discovery of Higgs Boson, 84k
- Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday, 66k
- Andy Murray reaches Wimbledon final, 59k
- Chris Moyles resigns, 53k
- Stone Roses reunion, 48k
- Natwest Bank IT failure, 39k
- Syria civil war (or Tremseh Massacre), 38k
- Transit of Venus, 35k
- Jimmy Carr tax scandal, 34k
- Mario Balotelli’s performance at Euro 2012, 28k
- Greek elections, 25k
- Julian Assange embassy hideout, 24k
- Sage Stallone’s death, 24k
- Costa Concordia six month anniversary, 21k
- O2 phone network crash, 20k
- Aung San Sui Kyi’s Nobel Prize address, 18k
- Tom Cruise’s divorce, 18k
- Rafael Nadel early Wimbledon exit, 18k
- Sale of Etoille Bleue (art), 17k
- Eva Rausing’s death, 16k
- Glasgow Rangers put in to administration, 16k
- John Terry’s racism trial, 14k
- Apple WWDC 2012, 14k
- The Shard’s opening, 14k