Google has unveiled their
Zeitgeist 2010, a list of top
search terms in year 2010.
This list
arrange accordingly the
top search
keywords, fastest rising
query, fastest
rising peoples, Fastest-
rising queries in consumer
electronics etc. You can
also browser list by
different countries. This
year Olympics, the World
Cup, earthquakes, the oil
spill, and Lady Gaga among
others in top search terms.
Of note in the top queries,
the top iPhone 4 beat the
Evo 4G, Twitter beat
Facebook, and
Chatroulette beat
everyone.
This year Twitter beat
Facebook in fastest rising,
but Facebook is far ahead
of Twitter in terms of
overall queries.
According to Google, "In
the search team we talk a
lot about that people are
always looking for new
things with Google. In fact,
about 20% of our queries
are new each day. For this
year’s Zeitgeist, we’ve
added interactive HTML5
data visualizations for the
top queries and events
from around the world.
You can easily compare
the popularity of the
Olympics vs. the World
Cup, see the world’s
reaction to Haitian
earthquake or the Gulf Oil
Spill through the eyes of
search trends. With these
new visualizations, you can
interact with, explore and
obsess over search data
just the way we do."
In India while the IRCTC
(railway ticket booking)
continues to top the charts
of the year-on-year fastest
rising bracket, some of the
newer interesting entries
this year are the low cost
smart phone maker
Micromax Mobiles and
YouTube Videos. As the
FIFA World Cup grabbed
the real world attention,
netizens too showed the
excitement catching them
online. Amongst the most
popular on the web –
Songs, Facebook and
Google remain the top
three. Amongst the fastest
rising people, Indians
searched for British actress
Aruna Shields and this
year’s new Bollywood
sensation, Sonakshi Sinha.
Other favorites from
Bollywood were Zarine
Khan, Katrina Kaif; and
amongst the men, Salman
Khan ruled the web.
The top 10 fastest-rising
queries of 2010:
chatroulette
ipad
justin bieber
nicki minaj
friv
myxer
katy perry
twitter
gamezer
facebook
Fastest Rising People in
2010:
justin bieber
katy perry
selena gomez
kim kardashian
eminem
lady gaga
miley cyrus
taylor lautner
megan fox
robert pattinson
Fastest-rising queries in
consumer electronics in
2010:
ipad
iphone 4
nokia 5530
htc evo 4g
nokia n900
blackberry apps
duracell mygrid
???
otterbox
pdanet
For more details
visit Google Zeitgeist 2010
homepage
