IT WAS the year for an amateur bodybuilder called Zyzz, the iPhone 5 and red velvet cupcakes. The most popular Google searches by Australians in 2011 reveal a country more interested in mobile phones than Arab uprisings but still searching for the meaning of love.

Searches for news on the iPhone 5 were more popular than Libya or cyclone Yasi. The most popular food and drink search was ''red velvet cupcakes'' followed by cake pops, macaroon and massaman curry.

The death of Zyzz, a 22-year-old amateur bodybuilder and showman from Carlingford with a cult online following, was only narrowly out-searched by the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Both were less popular than searches on the death of Amy Winehouse, Ryan Dunn, Osama bin Laden and Princess Diana.