Google Kenya has released some its top searches for the year 2011, including the most searched celebrity, news item and choice of entertainment.

Wayne Rooney ranks not too far from Nikki Minaj and Rihanna, while the National Basketball Association was surprisingly googled frequently alongside the much more obvious English Premier League.

The searches have been released as part of this “Zeitgeist” which means “the spirit of the times” – an annual exercise by Google to showcase what has been going on in the world that entire year, in the eyes of the world wide web.

Were you part of these top ten searches? Have a look…

Kenya’s Fastest Rising Queries
1. YouTube
2. Arsenal
3. Daily Nation
4. Facebook
5. Yahoo
6. Gmail
7. KRA
8. yahoo mail
9. hotmail
10. couleur 3

Kenya’s Fastest Rising People
1. Big Meech
2. Steve Jobs
3. John Dahlback
4. Nicki Minaj
5. Rihanna
6. Joel Osteen
7. Lil Wayne
8. Ellen G. White
9. Wayne Rooney
10. Lewis Nguyai

Top Sports
1. NBA
2. Arsenal
3. Manchester United
4. Chelsea
5. English premier league
6. goal.com
7. epl news
8. soccernet
9. neo cricket live
10. rugby world cup

Top Google news
1. Kenya
2. Somalia
3. Arsenal
4. Manchester United
5. Facebook
6. Libya
7. Daily Nation
8. Chelsea
9. YouTube
10. Standard newspaper

Local top search news
1. Kenya news
2. BBC
3. Latest news
4. Breaking news
5. Kenya breaking news
6. Libya
7. KTN
8. Gadaffi
9. Somalia
10. Nairobi now

Top entertainment
1. Wake me
2. Soy tu Duena
3. Teresa Telenovela
4. Message riddim
5. Big brother amplified
6. Les Paul
7. Lucero
8. Miss World 2011
9. Vybz Kartel songs
10. Nate Dogg

Health education
1. HIV
2. Ovarian cancer
3. Prostate cancer
4. Causes of cancer
5. Cervical cancer
6. Heart
7. Breast
8. Malaria
9. Diabetes
10. Sore throat

Beauty and personal care
1. Hair
2. How to
3. Tattoos
4. Weaves
5. BMI
6. Lose
7. Excercise
8. Beauty
9. Weight loss
10. ITL

Church
1. Catholic church
2. Church of God
3. Baptist church
4. SDA church
5. Mavuno church
6. Church of Christ
7. Anglican church
8. Jubilee Christian church