Google Zeitgeist Shows Some Interesting Entries
This may be a little stale news, but Google has issued the Zeitgeist for 2005 here.
Its the list of the most popular search words on Google for a particular, and since Google is the biggest search engine there is, the keywords are pretty much the most popular ones. They have 3 listings there - top gainers, top searches in Google News, and top searches in Froogle (their shopping arm).
What is interesting are new top new entries for this year. No.1 is 'Myspace' the latest online community portal. I can't say that its wildly popular here with my friends, but apparently it is so in the US. Hmmm. Other interesting debutants are Ares (the P2P software), China upstart Baidu, and even wikipedia.
Even more surprising is that on the news search, Janet Jackson came out tops, higher than brother Michael. I know, it baffles me too. Even the wardrobe malfunction thing was in 2004, can't be that people are still interested. The rest are pretty predictable, like Katrina, Britney Spears and American Idol.
And on another note, iPod was mentioned in the top ten Froogle queries (not counting 'mp3 player').
You can chck out the listing here.