• As The World Searched: Google Zeitgeist 2010 [Video]

    Alexia Tsotsis

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Friday, December 10th, 2010


    From the folks that brought you Google Wave Cinema comes Google Zeitgeist 2010: The Video. As a poignant reminder that the year is almost over, the video highlights the searches that changed our lives or at least the topics of our dinner conversations; From the Gulf Oil Spill to the Thai political crisis to Bed Intruder this was 2010, with some Vuvuzelas thrown in for good measure.

    You can read more about Google Zeitgeist here.

    Company: Google
    Website: google.com
    Launch Date: September 7, 1998
    IPO: NASDAQ:GOOG

    Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing...

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