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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