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December 16th, 2011 at 4:09 am -

‘Battlefield 3′ among 2011 top Google searches

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may be winning the video game sales campaign — and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the awards victor so far — but Battlefield 3 came out on top as the hottest game of 2011.

That’s the finding from Google’s 11th annual Zeitgeist report of global searching trends. Battlefield 3 came in as the No. 5 fastest-rising queries. No. 1 hot search subject: 13-year-old singer Rebecca Black.

Coming in Nos. 2-4 were Google+, the late MTV daredevil Ryan Dunn and Casey Anthony. For the full top 10 and details about the search trends go to the Zeitgeist site. (By the way, if you Google “zeitgeist” you will learn that it is a German term for”the spirit of the times”.)

There are dozens of lists on the site, with interesting tools that let you compare different search topics over weekly activity.

Among the lists is the Most Popular Video Games in the U.S.:

1) Black Ops
2) Call of Duty
3) Halo Reach
4) Super Mario
5) Mortal Kombat
6) Skyrim
7) Battlefield 3
Dragon Age 2)
9) Diablo 3
10) Mass Effect 3

Also ranked were Most Popular Online Games:

1) World of Warcraft
2) Addicting Games
3) Free Online Games
4) Miniclip
5) Webkinz
6) Tower Defense
7) Kids Games
Armor Games
9) Tetris
10) Juegos

Other interesting findings:

– Batman: Arkham City came in as the No. 2 most popular movie after Star Wars.
– The Amazon Kindle Fire surpassed the iPhone 4S, other smartphones and tablets for the global fastest-rising consumer electronics device.
– Battlefield 3 also came in No. 6 on the fastest-rising Google News topics (No. 1 was Fukushima).

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