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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. Re:CNN? by Samuel+Hughes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Most people probably went looking for cached versions of the page.

    Of course, that doesn't explain the searches for Amazon, topping the top ten retailers list.

  2. Big Brother by dolo666 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google timeline... Hey I guess they really do pay attention to the search querries at these engines. Now that they know what we're thinking, will they be forced to act on piracy searches? I wonder if they send the ips out to the government of people looking for stuff they shouldn't be.

    I have a site that gets a lot of traffic from Google because of articles and such, but even writing about warez gets me hits from people looking to get pirated software. What are the ethics here? Does Google or any search engine have to publish the IPs to the government of people looking for stuff they shouldn't be?

    Side note.. I can actually remember searching for a desktop image on Google that they have in this Zeitgeist. Creepy.