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January 1 : Cher , because why not Cher ?
February 1 : Harriet Tubman , who was honor that 24-hour interval in aGoogle Doodle celebrating Black History Month .
March 1 : Crimea , a region in the Ukraine that has since been annex by Russia . On March 1 , the Russian parliamentapproved scout group deploymentin the Ukraine . ( More detail on the crisis can be found onthis Wikipedia varlet . )
April 1 : How I Met Your Mother , a CBS sitcom that aired its season finale March 31 . It held onto the top spot on April 2 , too .
May 1 : May Day , a spring festival .
June 1 : O. Gabriel , a page thatdoesn’t actually exist(more account for why that might have happened below ) .
July 1 : Malware , also the top page for June 30 . This could be tied toa causa Microsoft filedto disrupt Bladabindi - Jenxcus , which , accord to the company ’s web log , is " a pervasive family of malware that put millions of customers at risk . "
August 1 : Alliteration , defined byLiteraryDevices.netas " a stylistic equipment in which a identification number of word , having the same first consonant auditory sensation , occur near together in a serial publication . " Alliteration is the top result from July 29 to August 4 .
September 1 : LASIK , an acronym of Laser - Assisted in situ Keratomileusis , a surgery that corrects visual sense .
October 1 : Queen II , the second studio album released by Queen
November 1 : Online shopping , which remain in the top spot through November 7 . Clearly , Wikipedia users had vacation presents on the creative thinker .
December 1 : Flower , also the top lookup for December 2 .
" Many of the top result be big news outcome , " publish Nikhil Sonnad . " Some results are odd . Because the data measure pageviews and not unique visitor , they are subject to distortion from bots , or software that requests Page programatically , " which might excuse the175,638 visitor of the non - existent O. Gabriel Thomas Nelson Page . “Others , " Sonnad summate up , " can simply be impute to the unpredictability of the internet . " Clickherefor the full calendar .
