The five week strike show many Kenyans surfing online to seek information on its status.
Actress, blogger and Kenya Airways stewardess, Nana Gichuru – also known as Kanana Gichuru – was the second Google trending search.
Nana, died in a tragic car accident on the Eastern bypass after her BMW convertible saloon car had a head-on collision with an oncoming lorry.
A week prior to her death, she had posted a quote on social media that was viewed by many as a premonition of her death.
Dr Mugo wa Wairimu, also known as James Mugo Ndichu, is accused of allegedly sedating and raping women in his clinic, and was the third most trending search in the month of September.
This was after an investigative series that exposed the alleged happenings in Wairimu’s clinic.
The Capital One Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, came in fourth on the top 10 trending searches.
The league, which is a football competition played by teams in England and Wales, drove football fans online as they wanted to keep up with the league’s match fixtures and results.
The Rugby World Cup, which is men’s rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, was the fifth most trending search.
Google Logo History, after Google launched a new logo on September 1, 2015 and Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar following the release of hit television series Narcos.
The “What is”
question category seems to be pushed more by searches by students for meaning.
Most of the questions are classroom-driven . What is weed captured the
first position under the trending ‘What is’ searches category followed by: What
is liberalism - as they sought to understand the meaning of this political
philosophy; What is humanitarian - as they went online to find out more about
the moral concept; What is climate - as users went online to gather more
information on climate change; What is mitosis - as they wanted to find
out more about the biological process through which cells separate into two
identical sets of chromosomes and What is poetry - which points to the need for
internet users to understand the form of literature. Other queries under this
category included: What is composition, What is voltage, What is tumblr,
What is dope and what is refugee.
In the ‘How to’
category, the trending searches , ‘How to focus’ featured as the number
one search while How to photoshop was number two. Kenyans also searched for How
to write, How to trust, How to print, How to incorporate, How to trade,
How to apologise, How to save and How to lie.
Trending searches
1. Teachers
Strike
2. Nana
Gichuru
3. Mugo
wa Wairimu
4. Capital
One Cup
5. Rugby
World Cup
6. UEFA
Champions League
7. Anthony
Martial
8. Kenya
vs Zambia
9. Google
Logo History
10. Pablo
Escobar
Top ‘what is’
Searches
1. What
is weed?
2. What
is liberalism?
3. What
is humanitarian?
4. What
is mitosis?
5. What
is poetry?
6. What
is a composition?
7. What
is voltage?
8. What
is tumblr?
9. What
is dope?
10. What is
refugee?
Top ‘How to’
Searches
1. how
to focus
2. how
to photoshop
3. how
to write
4. how
to trust
5. how
to print
6. how
to incorporate
7. how
to trade
8. how
to apologise
9. how
to save
10. how to lie
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