Kim Kardashian most-searched person on Yahoo!

Los Angeles: Socialite Kim Kardashian has become the most-searched person on search engine Yahoo! this year.

Kardashian comes in the third place after terms "election" as the champion and "iPhone 5" as the runner-up. Yahoo! web trend analyst Vera Chan says Kardashian`s "notoriety has kept her at the top". She becomes a constant hot topic due to her ongoing divorce battle with her estranged husband Kris Humphries and her high-profile romance with Kanye West. "The 2012 elections dominated the online searches, which is amazing because if something is in the news, it`s already accessible... people were really saturated by it, but even so, that was a key word that people typed throughout the year," added Chan. Other famous females on the top 10 on the overall list are Kate Middleton, who was entangled in a topless photo scandal, Whitney Houston, whose death in early 2012 spawned a number of tributes, and Lindsay Lohan, who`s facing multiple legal woes. List of 2012 Yahoo! overall searches: Election iPhone 5 Kim Kardashian Kate Upton Kate Middleton Whitney Houston Olympics Political polls Lindsay Lohan Jennifer Lopez IANS