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Google Reveals Most Searched MLB Players in 2012

Last month, we told you that New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was the most-searched baseball player on Bing for the second consecutive year. As it does every year, Google also just released its Zeitgeist for 2012, which saw 1.2 trillion searches in 146 different languages on the search engine king. And, in addition to Bing, Jeter was the most-searched MLB player on Google this past year.

The full results, via ESPN Playbook, are as follows:

U.S. Most Searched MLB Players in 2012

1. Derek Jeter

2. Bryce Harper

3. Josh Hamilton

4. Alex Rodriguez

5. Albert Pujols

6. Brian Wilson

7. Prince Fielder

8. Mike Trout

9. Tyler Moore

10. Chris Johnson

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