With a new pixie-styled 'do, a concert tour, and an equally chartismatic husband, who wouldn't want to use Microsoft's Bing to hunt down news of Beyoncé?
OK, put your hands down. But yes, Beyonce topped the list of the most searched-for people using Microsoft's search engine, hip-checking Kim Kardashian off her perch as the most searched-for person of 2012.
And no, there were no fireworks for Katy Perry, either. Despite a new record, the songstress disappeared from Bing's top-ten list, replaced by none other than the queen of twerking, Miley Cyrus.
MicrosoftTop searches for Microsoft's Bing, 2013.
At year's end, the major search engines usually collect and collate a list of the most popular terms, both to reflect the year's zeitgeist as well as to promote their own search rankings. So far, Google has yet to release its own rankings, although the current Google Trends page for October puts Cyrus on top of the most-searched-for actors for October, the same spot she held for the last three months. Interestingly, Google placed Beyonce 13th in its list of musical artists for October, and tenth for September.
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