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Social-media company X lifted the ban on searches for Taylor Swift Monday evening, after blocking users from search ing for her following the spread of fake sexually-explicit image s of the pop singer on the social media site last week. The search has been reactivated and the social media platform "will continue to be vigilant for any attempt to spread this content and will remove it if we find it," Joe Benarroch, head of Business operations at X, said in a statement on Monday Searches for Taylor Swift's name on Sunday afternoon on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter yielded the error message, "Something went wrong. Try reloading." X had called the measure a temporary action done with "abundance of caution." One image of Swift, who was named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2023, shared on X was viewed 47 million times before the account was suspended, according to a New York Times report. The ban on ...

Google revealed an interesting wrap-up of 2022 with a list of what users found most fascinating while search ing on the web. The most searched word of the year was 'Wordle', the word-guessing game that had everyone hooked on for their word of the day. The most search ed news topic was regarding election day in the US. The passing of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and actress Betty White were also among the top search es, coming in second and third respectively in terms of news search .  Disney's new movie, Encanto, based on Marvel's playful superhero, Thor, had the most search ed-for song - 'We don't talk about Bruno'. The list of categories also includes the most searched-for people, definitions, actors, movies, etc. Johnny Depp topped the list of most searched-for actors and people, while Euphoria and Stranger Things were the top two searches on the TV show list. Google also expanded the list to search es for cultural landmarks on Googl...