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Games, Bebo, YouTube and Trade Me topped New Zealanders' searches on Google in 2008, but the results also reveal a curious year of internet searches, the Sunday Star-Times has reported.
Those surfing for porn were more likely to live in Taranaki, then Auckland and Manawatu-Wanganui. Recipe searches revealed that cakes were most popular, followed by bread, pie, soup, chicken and muffins. Many of the terms had not been searched enough to produce a data report but Auckland was the only area where "genital warts" searches registered in any number (spikes were recorded in April and September).
One on one, Ford beat Holden, Marmite beat Vegemite, Hayley Westenra beat Kiri Te Kanawa and art topped sport. Who out there was looking for us? The top three country searches for the word "kiwi" came from New Zealand, Norway and Mongolia, where Kiwi is the name of a popular girl band.
