Google Zeitgeist 2008
Google has released its Zeitgeist for 2008, which sort of feels like a yearbook for the planet. In the Zeitgeist report, Google tallies up the fastest rising search terms for the year. They define fastest rising as, the most popular searches conducted for 11 months of 2008 and ranked based on how much their frequency increased compared to 2007. Google divvies up the info by country, topic (sports, showbiz, etc.) plus they compile a big grand daddy list of the most popular search terms globally.
The global list had a quite a few surprises on it for me (who knew Heath Ledger was more popular than Obama?) and the US-centric list made me feel woefully inadequate for not knowing who in the heck David Cook was (I know now, thanks Google).
P.S. Did you notice how Goolge is using Pantone’s mimosa, dubbed the color for 2009?
