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By Marziah Karch, About.com Guide to Google

Google Year End Zeitgeist

Saturday December 29, 2007
Every year Google compiles a list of search terms for the Zeitgeist report. This isn't the most popular search terms. Those terms tend to stay the same (and are probably a little naughty.)

The Zeitgeist looks at unusual patterns in search and fast rising terms, which gives a look into what the world is thinking about. Hence the name Zeitgeist, which comes from a borrowed German word for the spirit of the times. The global Zeitgeist list for 2007 is:

  1. iphone
  2. badoo
  3. facebook
  4. dailymotion
  5. webkinz
  6. youtube
  7. ebuddy
  8. second life
  9. hi5
It seems pretty typical that Web services and gadgets are high on the list. They need to develop an analog version to see what the non-technically minded are searching for. Maybe they could ask reference desk librarians.
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