Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Google Zeitgeist 2010


Hello friends Zeitgeist means “spirit of the times” which is why Google aptly named one of its online services Zeitgeist since it keeps track of the millions of search queries Google receives. The information contained within Google Zeitgeist is a nice reminder of what has happened over the past year and how those events have shaped the habits of online users to find more information about them. Some of the top global events queried on Google in 2010 include the World Cup hosted in South Africa, the Winter Olympics in Canada, the Haiti earthquake, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ash cloud originating in Iceland which affected global travel.Some of the fastest rising queries in 2010 also says something about what peaked our interest online this year. The top five queries included chatroulette, ipad, Justin Bieber, nicki minaj and friv followed by myxer, katy perry, twitter, gamezer, and facebook. Regionally, the fastest rising queries in the U.S. wasn’t much different than the global list. One difference is the inclusion of “glee” in the top 10 list which a testament to how the hit television show as become ingrained in the American culture.

As a result of the latest Google Zeitgeist information, a new YouTube upload offers a summary of the queries and events of 2010 through a collage of search results, images and video. It’s a nice wrap-up of the year through the eyes of Google as we say farewill to 2010 and come one year closer to the predicted 2012 apocalypse that will no doubt be capped off by Justin Bieber topping the global fastest rising queries list in 2011.

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