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Google Recaps 2001
fm6 writes: "Google has suplemented their usual weekly Zeitgeist update with a lovely 2001 Timeline. Particularly interesting to see how the usual queries about celebrities and sports suddenly
disappeared in favor of searches about recent event -- although
people seem to put Nostradamus in the later category."
People most likely went to google looking for cached versions of the news reports. remember, cnn (and most other news sites) were swamped.
I find it sad to see how much tragedies shape our lives. Putting September 11 aside for a moment, the Intimidator was the most often searched for object/person in one month. It was a horrible terrible thing to have happened and it seems everyone became fascinated with it to an extent and began searching google for it.
Add to that September 11th. People again began searching for something that was gone only after it had been destroyed.
Why can't we as Americans.... as people, appreciated the wonderful things we have before they're gone?
Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy
...is a list of everything you searched for all year, available to anyone (spouse, employer, neighbors...). So you'd have to make sure that Google kept your information absolutely secure. Good thing Internet sites have such a stellar reputation for that.
"In other news, Joe Blow of 327 Maple Street was charged with last year's rape and murder of Jane Doe of Alta Vista. Officials said that the big break in the case came when a subpoena of Google search records for area residents turned up evidence that the terms "rape", "weapons", and "attack" had been used in searches from Blow's home computer. Mr. Blow is being held without bond while police search for additional damning evidence against this psychopathic killer..."
"Update: Jailed rapist and killer Joe Blow appears to have escaped conviction for his 2000 rape and murder of Alta Vista resident Jane Doe, as after three months of searching, officials have failed to uncover additional evidence from his well-covered trail. The DA's office has sworn that this vicious criminal will not go unpunished, however, since they'e sure they can find something in his Google search records that will indicate some felony involvement in something or other."
On 9/11, right after the attacks, cnn.com was virtually unreachable. Some people probably didn't understand why.