Google Philippines’ top trending term for 2012: Simsimi

What’s your best “Simsimi” story?

Filipinos always make the most of imitations. While iPhone’s SIRI was still unavailable, we took advantage of the antics – and irreverence of Simsimi. It became so popular this year that it became the trending search term  in Google’s search engine, says  its latest Zeitgeist report.

Yes, Angry birds only came in second!

Simsimi was developed by Korean tech company ISMaker. As a mobile chat robot, it is known to make witty remarks and can be “taught” responses to everyday questions.

InterAksyon.com has released a list of the top mobile apps Pinoys have been fond of in 2012. The list from Google  includes:

1. Simsimi

2. Angry Birds

3. Instagram

4. Temple Run

5. Pixlr-O-Matic

6. Muzy

7. Google Plus

8. Pixlr Express

9. Draw Something

10. Viber

 




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