It will come as no surprise to any regular web user that Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was one of Google's "fastest rising" searches of the year.
And not just in Canada but around the world, including in the United States, Chile, France, Mexico and the U.K.
Google released its annual Zeitgeist on Thursday, revealing the fastest-growing new search terms of the year, and the overall most popular queries.
Sixteen-year-old Bieber, a native of Stratford, Ont., used homemade YouTube videos to get the attention of music moguls and has continued to work social media -- he has almost 6.3 million followers on Twitter -- as he's rocketed to fame and online ubiquity.
It's pretty hard to escape Bieber online these days.
Globally, Bieber ranked third on the list of fastest-rising searches and was first in categories for fastest rising in entertainment and fastest-rising people.
He actually ranked lower in Canada in those categories, coming in seventh, third and third, respectively.
The other top fast-rising search terms overall in Canada included the Vancouver Olympics, the World Cup, Lotto Max, "Glee," the free classified site Kijiji, Hotmail and Google Translate.
The top two were the iPad and Chatroulette, a video chat website randomly connects users around the world.
The top searches overall in Canada were mostly used as shortcuts to web pages, including queries for Facebook, YouTube, Google, Hotmail, Kijiji and Yahoo. The other searches in the top 10 were games, weather, map and news.
