Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com list their most searched items in 2011

Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): iPhone topped Yahoo's list of top-10 searches for the year, ahead of Casey Anthony and Kim Kardashian, while Bing listed Justin Bieber as the most-searched person on its search engine.

Ask.com, which invites users to frame searches as questions, said its top trending question was, "Was Kim Kardashian's wedding fake?"

Facebook's most-shared news stories of the year was the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, while a piece about the social networking website itself, the announcement of its new Timeline feature was No. 7.

Yahoo's top searches of 2011:

1. iPhone

2. Casey Anthony

3. Kim Kardashian

4. Katy Perry

5. Jennifer Lopez

6. Lindsay Lohan

7. American Idol

8. Jennifer Aniston

9. Japan earthquake

10. Osama bin Laden

"The iPhone was No. 6 last year, so it's not a newcomer," ABC news quoted Yahoo's senior editor and Web trend analyst Vera Chan as saying.

"It had a cult following that went mainstream in 2011," Chan added.

Yahoo released a second list, which noted the searches that topped via mobile devices.

1. iPhone 5

2. Powerball

3. MLB

4. Scrabble cheat

5. Casey Anthony

6. Hurricane Irene 2011

7. Kim Kardashian

8. Translator

9. Amy Winehouse

10. May 21, 2011 Rapture

Ask.com's list of top celebrity search terms and questions were:

1. Kim Kardashian: Was Kim Kardashian's wedding fake?

2. Justin Bieber: Is Justin Bieber going to be a dad?

3. Lady Gaga: Are Lady Gaga's face implants real?

4. Beyonce: Did Beyonce fake a baby bump?

5. Kate Middleton: Who made Kate Middleton's wedding dress?

6. Ashton Kutcher: Did Ashton cheat?

7. Michael Jackson: Was Michael Jackson murdered?

8. Selena Gomez: Is Selena Gomez pregnant?

9. Lindsay Lohan: Is Lindsay Lohan going to jail?

10. Charlie Sheen: What happened to Charlie Sheen's teeth?

Ask had separate lists for news stories (the Japanese earthquake was first) and political figures (Barack Obama beat out questions about Mitt Romney's religion).

Google, the market leader among search engines, said it will have a list of its own by mid-December. (ANI)