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Jackson, Facebook: most Googled words
THE late pop icon Michael Jackson was the king of Google's list of fastest-rising searches this year, which included social networking websites, a teenage vampire flick and US singer Lady Gaga.
Facebook came second on Google's Zeitgeist list, released on Tuesday by the search engine, followed by Facebook's Spanish-language counterpart Tuenti in third place and micro-blogging site Twitter.
The Turkish website Sanalika was fifth ahead of New Moon, the title of the popular vampire book from the Twilight series that was made into a movie.
New York-born Lady Gaga was in seventh place ahead of Windows 7, dantri.com.vn and torpedo gratis.
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