For much of Europe, August is synonymous with holidays and we’ve been trolling through Google Trends’s new Hot Searches tool to see what is amusing, fascinating or titillating Europeans during the summer.transfer sagas scored high and Charlotte Green’s appointment as the first woman announcer of the BBC’s Saturday Football topped the ranking of the August 7 Hot Searches. Anzhi team’s financial issues and St. Petersburg’s Zenit’s purchase of two players, full-back "Rubin" and Argentinian Cristian Ansaldi. Gustl Mollath , from an institution for the criminally insane, the legal scandal surrounding the case soared to the top of Germany’s searches. Severe storms affecting German train traffic received wide attention, as did Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post. Russians searched for news about government’s decision to accept American leaker Edward Snowden’s asylum request and the mass protest against a new Internet anti-piracy law. Posted by William Echikson, External Relations, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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