One Direction Knocks Justin Bieber Off The Most Searched in Google Rankings!

Harry, Liam, Louis , Niall, and Zayn of One Direction  have knocked off the wildly popular pop star Justin Bieber over the most searched topic on Canada's Google rankings. Considering he is from Canada could this be a blow for Justin?

 Well, according to Google's annual exploration of web search data, the Canadian pop star was taken down a peg this past year.

"Justin Bieber's kind of taking some licks, at least in terms of how he ranks in Google searches this year," says Google Canada spokesman Aaron Brindle.

 He wasn't eligible for the year's Top 10 list of Canadian "trending" searches -- representing newer queries that have broken out for the first time -- but surprisingly, he wasn't named Google's biggest music-related search of the year.

English-Irish boy band One Direction had more searches than Bieber, who did finish second in the category.

"He still has tons and tons of searches, but it's interesting, this is kind of a hard year for Justin Bieber because he was outpaced by One Direction and then we also saw ... 'Gangnam Style' (by PSY) passed Justin Bieber's ('Baby') as the most watched video of all time last month."

"Gangnam Style" was No. 5 on Google Canada's list of top trending searches of 2012, behind the social media site Pinterest, hurricane Sandy, the Olympics and the video game "Diablo 3." "Gangnam Style" outranked the book-turned-film "Hunger Games," SOPA (an acronym for the Stop Online Piracy Act), the Quebec reality show "Star Academie," head of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony, and Zerg Rush, a search term that launches a secret video game at Google.com.