Google published Tuesday, December 17, its annual ranking - Zeitgeist charts - key search words on its search engine in 2013. This classification reveals, among other news, sports and celebrities, the most popular country destinations. Mauritius there appears twice in the Top 10.
Starting in India, where the island is in third place, after Macau and Maldives. In the UK, the trend is that Mauritius is at the bottom of the table top 10 behind Rome, Venice, Sydney, New York or Amsterdam . However, it is unclear whether users have typed as a keyword "Maurice" or"Mauritius".