Update | Hongkongers spent the year Googling TV dramas while Singaporeans kept hunting for Pokemon

While Hongkongers eagerly Googled a popular local television drama about a taxi driver with supernatural abilities, Singaporeans were concerned with just one thing – where they could catch Pokemon.

According to Google’s Year in Search 2017 report, the top trending search for Singapore was “Sgpokemap”, a real-time map for Pokemon Go players in Singapore which gives exact locations of where users can capture different Pokemon.

For the uninitiated, Pokemon Go is a location-based mobile game that amassed hundreds of millions of downloads and became the most popular mobile app globally in 2016.

However, it lost a third of its users within a month of being launched in July 2016, although the popularity wane did not seem to have come from Singapore – “Sgpokemap” was an active search term throughout much of 2017.

In Hong Kong, the top search was for TVB’s The Exorcist’s Meter, a horror-comedy about a taxi driver, played by Kenneth Ma, who accidentally acquires the ability to see the supernatural and goes about conquering demons and falling in love in the process.

My Unfair Lady, a romantic comedy series by TVB with its plot centred around the love lives of three unmarried women, ranked third in Hong Kong’s trending searches. OCTB 2017, a web drama about a police officer who goes undercover one last time, was fifth.