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Thread (Discussion): Google News Top Ten
Message 169814
Posted by orolan
on Dec 21, 2005 12:07 AM | Also by orolan
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: N/A,
Country: United States |
The top ten search terms of 2005 on the Google News site. Sex offenders, sex offenses and sex offense victims are conspicuous in their absence(no, Janet's boob-flash doesn't qualify). Looks like society has more important things to worry about. Like news on the release date of a game system.
1. Janet Jackson
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. tsunami
4. xbox 360
5. Brad Pitt
6. Michael Jackson
7. American Idol
8. Britney Spears
9. Angelina Jolie
10. Harry Potter
The top gainers over their 2004 position in Google searches in general, not just Google News
1. Myspace
2. Ares
3. Baidu
4. wikipedia
5. orkut
6. iTunes
7. Sky News
8. World of Warcraft
9. Green Day
10. Leonardo da Vinci
What do we have there? Myspace is the newest thing for kids. Forget IM and chat and blogs. Ares is a BitTorrent-based P2P program for trading (illegally) songs and videos. Again all the rage with the kids. Baidu is the world's largest Chinese-language search engine. Wikipedia is a "write-your-own-definition" online encyclopedia that has gotten a few people in trouble. Orkut is Google's own version of an online dating / friendship / penpal service like Friendster. iTunes is, well, iTunes. SkyNews is like CNN Online, only the BBC instead:-)) World of Warcraft is a game played online and at lan parties around the world. Green Day is NOT a national holiday for The Sierra Club. It's a band. And Leonardo da Vinci (NOT Dicaprio) was of course just Leonardo. No doubt all those people who read The DaVinci Code.
So of all the things people were more interested in this year than they were last year, NONE of them had a thing to do with sex offenders, sex offenses, registries, 2,500-foot laws or anything remotely related.
So what is the information society REALLY interested in? Check it all out here:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
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