Britain's hopes and fears revealed in Yahoo!

The highest requested questions on Yahoo! UK search in 2012 reveal an unsafe but effectively minded populace - who may not have been conscious of the meaning of the word pleb until this year. "How to make money", It was the top question asked by users of the Yahoo search engine in 2012. followed by "who unfollowed me?" from nervous Twitter users eager to find out who had stopped following them on the social network. More prosaic concerns such as "When do the clocks go back?" (4), "How to write a CV" (5) and "When is Easter?" (6) also present in the top ten. Perennial challenges - losing weight (3) - mixed with more modern questions - "What is my IP address?" - and financial concern of the PPI misselling scandal by high street banks brought "How to claim PPi yourself" into tenth place. Frank Foster, a character murdered on soap opera Coronation Street in March, appears at number 7 with the question "Who killed Frank Foster?". And Andrew Mitchell, the former Chief Whip, seem to have caused unease not for his behaviour in allegedly calling police officers "plebs" in September but for stumping the British public on the vocabulary front. "What is a pleb?" was the 9th most asked question by Yahoo! users in 2012. "source the telegraph"

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