Paul Walker ahead of Mandela in Google’s ‘trending’ lists

It is likely a fair chunk of them were from people thinking “Paul who?” but the death of Paul Walker made him the most popular Google search in Ireland in 2013, well ahead even of the likes of Nelson Mandela.

The Fast & Furious star, who died in a car crash last month, topped both Google’s “trending people” and “trending searches this year”. That put him eight places above Mandela in terms of trending searches and three places ahead when it came to trending people.

In the latter category, Mandela was beaten by another dead actor, Corey Monteith, and a more controversial South African, murder-accused Oscar Pistorius.