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Google Recaps 2001

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the searches-that-made-the-year dept.

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."

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  1. Google and online language shift by madmagic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Top Holiday Searches 2001:
    1. christmas
    2. navidad
    3. hanukkah
    4. weihnachtskarten
    5. adventskalender

    Interesting to see that only one of the above five words -- or perhaps two of five, depending on your opinions of hanukkah :) -- is a traditional English language word.

    It's beginning to look a lot more like an international net. Will Cantonese words top the list by '05? '10?

    -Patrick

  2. Re:CNN? by qweqwe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's also another reason. The google query:
    slashdot site:cnn.com
    gives you different information than a simple CNN search for "slashdot". It tells you the most popular (i.e. most linked to) articles on CNN that refer to slashdot. Often times, this is more important since, as far as the world is concerned, these are the most memorable Slashdot articles.

  3. No way by _ganja_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OK, I think this is just made up and not based on seaches at all. I think we all know that if this was based on search engine queries it would look something like this:

    January to December: porn & warez.

    Yet neither school girl wet slut lesbians or crack whore dick suckers gets a look in for the whole year.

    --

    A journey of a thousand miles starts with a brutal anal raping at airport security