Professionals search service traditionally summed up and compiled a list of the most popular celebrities and phenomena. In the rankings of the queries were not only stars of show-business, but also TV shows, movies, gadgets, memes, and events. 
Traditionally December is a time for summing up. One of the largest search engines analyzed the requests of Russians in the outgoing year 2017.
How did you find the experts, the most popular person in the Network became Maria Maksakova. She managed to stay ahead of the singer Yulia Samoylova, who was unable to take part in “Eurovision-2017”, as well as the infamous Diana Shurygina, a kind of closing the top 3. In a list of ten persons, which often searched the Internet, also included Dana Borisova, Anastasia Volochkova, Anastasia Sumska, ravshana Kurkova, Natalia shkuleva, Tatiana Tarasova and Brigitte macron.
As for men, the top search queries was headed by Dima Bilan. In second place is TV host and chief editor of the “StarHit” Andrey Malakhov, and the third Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. In addition, the top 10 also included Kirill Serebrennikov, rapper Face, Anatoly Pashinina, Emmanuel Macron, Yuri Duda, Vladimir Kuzmin, and Dmitry Borisov.
Among Russian series the most popular was the “Junior”, then comes “the Hotel Eleon”, and closes the three leaders of the “Chernobyl. Exclusion zone”. On the fourth place put the “Ivanov-Ivanov”, followed by “Olga”, “Street”, “Adaptation”, “Teacher”, “You’re pissing me off” and “Father’s Bank”. From foreign projects, the most popular called “Game of thrones”, “the Hellene” and “Sherlock”.
Five of the most discussed and frequently requested in the Network films was “It”, “Despicable me 3”, “Guardians of the Galaxy. Part 2”, “Viking”, and “pirates of the Caribbean: Dead men tell no tales”. In addition to these paintings, the Internet is also frequently requested data for the films “the Last hero”, “fast and furious 8”, “transformers: the Last knight,” “Gravity” and “spider-Man: coming home.”
In the list of most discussed things and phenomena, you can find a cryptocurrency, spinner, latest iPhone and Samsung, as well as the voice assistant “Alice” and rap battles. The most talked about meme in 2017 called common rappers word “askeri” – the Russian tracing-paper from English esketit that represents a particular pronunciation of the expression let’s get it (“let’s start”). Other places in the top three took Idun and the phrase “It’s a fiasco, bro.”
In addition, the specialists of “Yandex” studied and most popular events of the year. The Russians searched the net news about the terrorist attack in the subway of Saint Petersburg, information about the so-called “groups of death”, and also about the scandal with the film by Alexei Uchitel “Matilda”. Among the most discussed sports queries included the ice hockey world championship, confederations Cup and the championship of Russia on football.