Prospective health care workers in the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre are shown being tested on their personal protection equipment procedure in Sierra Leone. Ebola placed third on Google’s list of 2014’s fastest-rising global search requests.
Prospective health care workers in the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre are shown being tested on their personal protection equipment procedure in Sierra Leone. Ebola placed third on Google’s list of 2014’s fastest-rising global search requests.Associate Press photo/Save the Children UK, Louis Leeson

The top global trending searches for 2014 were:

Robin Williams

World Cup

Ebola

Malaysia Airlines

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Flappy Bird

Conchita Wurst

ISIS

Frozen

Sochi Olympics

The top U.S. trending searches for 2014 were:

Robin Williams

World Cup

Ebola

Malaysia Airlines

Flappy Bird

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

ISIS

Ferguson

Frozen

Ukraine