2011 Top Christmas Searches on Yahoo! Malaysia

MALAYSIA, 23 DECEMBER, 2011 – It is the season for giving and Malaysians are all geared up to explore new and interesting ideas to celebrate the festive Christmas season. With millions of Malaysians looking to Yahoo! for answers, Yahoo! Search Trends offers a sneak peek into the top searches undertaken by Malaysians during this season

Christmas has truly arrived with Malaysians searching for the merriest of Christmas giveaways on the Internet. Yahoo! Search Trends revealed what Malaysians traditionally look for online, with search activity dominated by enquiries focused on Christmas greetings, pictures, wall paper, all targeted towards sharing Christmas wishes for near and dear ones. Spikes on searches for New Year prayers and resolutions are evident in the New Year Searches on Yahoo! Malaysia.

Here are the Top 10 searches for Christmas on Yahoo! Malaysia:

1. Doa awal dan akhir tahun (end-of-year and new-year prayer): Spiking the highest on Yahoo! Malaysia, searches on the New Year dominate the searches. As the year ends, users search for ideas on end-of-year and new-year prayer examples seem to be on the top of mind for most Malaysians.

2. New Year greetings: New Year is the time to keep-in-touch with family, relatives and friends, near and far, with well-wishes for the New Year evident in Yahoo! Malaysia.

3. Christmas pictures: Christmas pictures are most probably used to create a greeting card and just adding in the wishes/greetings on top or at the bottom of the image.

4. Christmas Cards: Christmas is the time to keep-in-touch with family, relatives and friends, near and far, with festive greeting cards.

5. New Year Images: New Year images with the year 2011 are most probably used to create a greeting card and just adding in the wishes/greetings on top or at the bottom of the image.

6. Santa Claus: Users may have searched for this term to get ideas on Santa Claus images or which shopping malls he can be seen so that they can bring their children.

7. Christmas Wishes: Users looked for ideas on wordings and phrases of well-wishes on Christmas.

8. Christmas Songs: During the festive period, Christmas songs may be played at public places and this encourage users to search for them to listen at home or work, and definitely during the Christmas day itself.

9. Christmas Tree: Users may have searched for this term to get ideas on how to decorate their own trees at home.

10.Christmas Wallpaper: To get into the festive mood, users often decorate their PC / laptop / mobile phone screens with Christmas wallpapers. It is also a well-known practice to create a greeting card from these wallpapers and just adding in the wishes/greetings on top or at the bottom of the image.