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This year Ukrainian online users most often searched for video content online, as well as information about Euro 2012, according to the results of the Google ZeitGeist annual search query posted on the company's Website on Thursday. 

Among the TOP 3 popular requests were “watch movie online,” “Euro 2012,” and “YouTube.” Moreover, the TOP 10 also included searches on the Central Election Commission, Eurovision 2012, Oksana Makar, Olympiad 2012, query of the television serial “Island of Unnecessary People,” and social networks “Vkontakte my page,” and “odnoklassniki ru.”

According to the Google data, Oksana Makar was the Person of the Year. Moreover, Whitney Houston, Marina Golub, Pussy Riot, Bohdan Stupka, Aleksander Pohorovschikov, Vitali Klitschko and Buranovskie Babushki are in this TOP 10.

Google also added the categories of “Singer of the Year” and “Sportsman of the Year.” The first category was led by Ani Lorak, then Potap & Nastia, while Boomboks was on the third place. In the category the sportsman of the year Vitali Klitschko led the first place, while Wladimir Klitschko was the second. Andriy Shevchenko was third.

Moreover, categories “Serial of the Year” and “TV show of the Year” were added. The “Island of the Unnecessary People” won in the first category, and “Bachelor 2” was second in this category.

Euro 2012 was the event of the year. In addition, among the TOP 10 events were the parliamentary elections, the explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, MMM-12, the death of Bohdan Stupka and Yaroslav Mazurok.

According to Google ZeitGeist, the animated film “Madagascar 3” was the film of the year, “How to Steal a Skyscraper” and “Odd Man Out” were second and third respectively.

Many people wanted to know how to lose weight, how to stop smoking, and how to kiss properly. Online users also were interested how to boil rice, how to tie a necktie, and how to get pregnant.

According to the research, the most demanded purchase of the year was car.