'Annus horribilis' the term Greeks googled most in 2016

Considering how it turned out, it's no surprise that "annus horribilis" was the term which Greeks googled most of all last year. Although 2015 was a hard year for the country, the opinion is unanimous that it was better than 2016, a year which many had hoped would be an improvement on the previous 12 months, but during which the barrage of bad news from every corner of the globe and the suffering just outside Greece's neighborhood continued. A portrait of the year emerges from the Google searches carried out by Greeks on the issues and people that preoccupied our thoughts.

Besides the term "annus horribilis," other searches included "Brexit" and "dab," a hip-hop dance move which surfed into the mainstream on the internet, the meaning of "RIP" (apparently because of the unexpected deaths of numerous high-profile figures during the year), "mad" and "inferno" (put down to the...