Bing and Yahoo may have already released their respective looks back on the top searches of 2012, but let’s be honest here – Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist is the one we’ve been waiting for. Now in its twelfth year, this year-end wrap up tells us what the world has been searching for, as seen through the billions of searches performed on Google throughout the year. → Read More
Google just announced that it is merging Google Trends, its tool for checking trending topics, and Insights for Search, its tool for comparing search terms over time, into one single Google Trends product. As part of this merger, the company is also giving Trends a fresh coat of paint and, more importantly, it’s switching to HTML5-based charts and maps based on the Google Chart Tools. → Read More
Well, this is convenient. Google published its 2011 Zeitgeist list of the fastest-growing search terms of the year. The No. 2 term on the list, right behind No. 1 “Rebecca Black,” is its own product, “Google+”. Since nobody ever heard of Google+ until this year, and it received loads of news coverage as Google’s strongest attempt yet to take on Facebook, searches for the term rose more than 10,000… → Read More
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 a Vuvuzela thrown in for good measure. → Read More
[France] Google and Yahoo have both published their most searched terms of 2009. TechCrunch already took a detailed look at the US rankings, but now let’s see what we can learn from the top search terms in France for 09… → Read More
Microsoft already featured the top search terms entered in its Bing search engine this year, leading us to conclude that “Michael Jackson Beats Out Twitter”. On Bing, that is.
But we could have picked nearly the same headline for Google’s just-published Zeitgeist 2009, only it would read “Michael Jackson Beats Out Twitter, Facebook And Windows 7″.
Google once again examined the billions of… → Read More
Whenever you want to take a reading of the current zeitgeist, popular search terms can tell you a lot about what’s on people’s minds. Right now, for instance, the hottest search terms on Google Trends include “lakewood police shooting,” “tiger woods mistress,” “surviving Christmas,” and “cyber monday 2009 deals.” If you look at Trending Topics on Twitter, however, you’ll see “Soul Train Awards.”… → Read More
Google released its 2008 Zeitgeist list of the most popular search terms for the year. Unlike Yahoo’s 2008 list of top search terms, Google looks at the fastest-rising searches of the year. That makes for a slightly more interesting list. (Yahoo’s list was basically a repeat of its 2007 list). Below are the two lists, and you can compare to Google’s list for 2007, which was dominated by… → Read More
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