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2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
krgallagher writes "Google has published their Year-End Zeitgeist. In their own words, 'Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and trends. We hope you enjoy this aggregate look at what people wanted to know more about this year.' The number one search for all of 2004 is britney spears."
When will it ever end?
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Nowhere on that page will you see a single popular search for BSD. You know what this confirms...
Is my browser stats.
(No, I don't want stats from some other site. I want them from the Zeitgeist!)
Porn doesn't seem to be in much of the mix. If you look at the 'images', blow-job doesn't even show up.
Heh, it's ... nice to see SCO as the top searched-for company. I guess it pays to be in that position, but we're gonna have to wait and see if it changes anything.
When the human race evolves into an intelligent species?
Actually, the top four queries were all women: Spears, Hilton, Aguilera, Anderson. I think they image search results might be skewing the data. :D
What they fail to mention is that people were searching for places to chat about Britney, Paris, Christina and Pamela.
Successfully condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 1998.
Britney Spears is the top search..and scroll down a bit to "top company searches" to see that SCO is in the lead. This confirms my theory that people are fascinated with stupidity in all it's forms.
Wow... The Tablet PC... The Microsoft invention... #1 in google's froogle search for computer goodies. What in the world happened with that one? I guess the boys over at www.tabletpcbuzz.com gotta be happy.
I'm not going to say anything about the Britney Spears bit...
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
The unfiltered top 10:
1. britney spears nude
2. paris hilton nude
3. christina aguilera nude
4. pamela anderson nude
5. adult chat
6. games warez
7. carmen electra nude
8. orlando bloom nude
9. harry potter warez
10. mp3 warez
i guess i'm missing some subtle nuance of the word?
We have the ability to keep knowledge of some of the greatest minds, and provide that knowledge to everyone? But no! "What's that little girl singing about? Let's put her on a CD, to be kept forever!"
I wish I had the exact quote, but it felt fitting to find out that this is what people want to know about on the Internet.
Lovely.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
in finding intelligent life on earth...
...
Seriously though, it just shows how many numbnuts there are out there.
It's no wonder there's a monkey in the white house again
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Geez, everything is entertainment related, with almost no educational value - unless of course the mp3 search is for people looking into how various compression algorithms work. Sometimes, I think I've found the reason why the world is going screwy. Maybe not.
I'm rather upset that I don't even appear in the top 10 popular men. When will people recognise me? Maybe I'll have to kill a bunch of people...?
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Wow, this zeitgeist really sucks now. It's focused on nothing but search info, which I guess is expected from Google - but demographic information be damned, it seems. They should be looking to gather more information on things like browser, OS, country, etc. Just throwing a load of search terms on a page isn't particularly compelling, especially when they're all so predictable.
== Jez ==
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If there is any hope for Western civilization, then the 11th most popular query is for "suicide".
Nice to see Spalding Gray at #3.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
That was sickos looking for pictures and video. That was no "Oh, I'm looking for a Nick Berg memorial site so I can pay tribute".
why isnt janet jackson classified into the 'women' category?
Where's Rick James, Bitch?!?
/ just sayin'
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
What i'm interested in is how Harry Potter beat mp3? What's up with that?
Playstation 2 would have been ahead of xbox if it wasn't also known as PS2. The searches for PS2 + playstation2 would have been ahead of xbox.
The #2 item on local health searches is "hospital". You can just picture millions of people turning to Google before thinking of dialing 911!!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"...and lo, a woman-child child shall be born, and she shall wear a head-dress of round plasic globes on her head as a child....upon the maturation of this child, when the platic globes are removed from her head and become infused in her chest....the end of the world shall surely be near...."
:)
I'm parphrasing...but it's something like that I'm sure
A goal is a dream with a deadline
britney spears is the most popular query, but it's 4th on the list of public figures, while paris hilton did not even make the list.
On the tech stuff category, *kazaa* is the first one and *mp3* the third one, yet *kazaa* did not even make it to the most popular queries one, while mp3 is the tenth string most searched for.There are also other inconsistencies, between for example the *most popular male* category and *most popular male celebrity*. (btw, what's the diff?)
Can somebody shed some insight into this?maybe because there is a world outside the US ?
:/
And the world series for cricket really does mean world series, not all the teams in the US and 4 from Canada.. North America isn't the world.
So you take the population of India about 1/4th and ask them what their favorite pasttime is.. it's cricket. combine that with sri lanka, south africa, australia, england etc.. and you get a lot of people who have internet access etc, know about google and search for events regarding a sport thats played by more people than who play baseball/american football, or polo
The top 4 queries are women's names. The first guy (Orlando Bloom, who was in LOTR) appears after the fifth woman (Carmen Electra, and I don't even know what she did this year that would draw so many searches).
It's clear now. We'll be seeing a lot more of britney spears and paris hilton in bikinis, mini skirts and prom dresses... possibly while they watch CNN, the simpsons, or listen to 'YMCA' on their ipods.
i wouldn't call this tech stuff:
Popular Tech Stuff 2004
1. wallpaper
2. kazaa
3. mp3
4. spybot
5. linux
Interesting that Paris Hilton is #2 in Queries and Women but Hilton Hotels is #4 in Hotels.
It says something...I just don't know what.
Successfully condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 1998.
So since George W. Bush was the number one public figure search, and John Kerry was third, behind Janet Jackson, can we assume that if Janet Jackson had run for president, she would have had a better chance of winning than John Kerry?
Maybe if the elections were held closer to the Superbowl.
Noticed this at the bottom of the page...
PigeonRank
Don't hate on Britney. Every living male with active hormones on this planet want a piece of that. And I bet you /. readers contributed a good percentage of those searches.
He lost to G.W. and Janet Jackson!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
North America might not be the whole world - but think. What proportion of North Americans have a computer and is online, compared to the proportion of Indians? Despite India having a population of 1bn, it wouldn't surprise me if New England alone had more people online than the whole of India.
Google can't study the results of the vast majority of Indian cricket fans that aren't online.
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Popular Queries
2004
1. britney spears
2. paris hilton
Top Public Figures
2004
1. george w bush
2. janet jackson
3. john kerry
4. britney spears
Shouldn't britney spears be the top of every list she qualifies for in the zeitgeist if her name is the most popular term overall?
how is cricket in the top 10 sports?
Here's why. I got the following off google news. People search for cricket because they want to know just what the hell the following text means.
In Chittagong, Bangladesh, yesterday, Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh took the home side's final wicket on the fourth morning to give the visitors victory in the second and final test by an innings and 83 runs and complete a 2-0 series sweep.
Harbhajan had No. 11 batsman Talha Jubair caught at long-on by Irfan Pathan with the fourth delivery of the day, as Bangladesh folded for 124 in its second innings. The home team was 118 for nine overnight after India enforced the follow on, having bowled Bangladesh out for 333 in reply to its first innings of 540.
My only reaction is, "LOL, what?"
I think this says a lot about the way (U.S.) people think about eating. with pizza, sushi, bakery, chinese and italian you might be able to live, but healthy?
Some people must see it, others must avoid it, I fall into the second crowd for the reason you described.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Or at least, less US influence.
Both the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong were more searched for than NFL. Either less US influence, or those looking for NFL don't know how to use a computer.
I was all set to come all over superior to the average luser, with my more refined taste, disdain for pop culture, etc., etc.
But, much to my dismay, I searched for "roomba" a few months ago.
Guess I'm just one of the sheeple.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
It's about time the Cubs beat the Yankees at something!
;)
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
10. low-rise jeans
Thank god this made the bottom of the list. I'm so sick at seeing every girl at uni wearing this disgusting uniform. Few women can pull off this fashion, on most it looks revolting. Yeah for sure I'm not that attractive either but, then again, I'm not revealing my belly and ass crack for you.
the searches for these are:
1. britney spears
2. paris hilton
3. christina aguilera
4. pamela anderson
5. carmen electra
6. jennifer lopez
7. angelina jolie
8. avril lavigne
9. beyonce
10. hilary duff
When you see a list like this dominate both images and females, you know they are not some poly-sci majors looking for info on pop-politics or teeny boppers seeking J-Lo's opinion of some movie. Nor are they looking for pictures of their "smiles".
Do note that Hillary Clinton didn't even make it in the news queries.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
the amount of internet cafe's, plus NRI's (Non Resident Indians).. the amount of Indians online who want to know about how the national indian cricket team is doing is larger than the population of New England. Plus add to that, the this is whats popular on Google, not the world. American sports, or anything televised on american tv, comes with a website.. mlb.com, nba.com, nfl.com .. cricket.com is a parked page for someone looking to make millions from a domain sale. Same reason why Euro 2004 was so high, europeans in the US and other places where it may not have been televised, or televised at a sane hour.. we don't know if this involves google news queries.. people may just want to be checkin up on scores etc. My original post just wanted to state that Cricket is more popular than the original poster may think, and probably on the minds of lot s of people who don't get cricket news on espn/local sports news.
> freeipods.com is not a scam, I've already received mine.
It's still a scam.
Those at the top of the pyramid get the reward (like you), and those at the bottom of the pyramid get ripped off of their invested time and/or money.
Either you're stupid, or you have an ulterior motive.
So these are the keywords I should get my site to show up in google under? Hmmmmmm....
I'd like to know who are all the peope that had to search for ebay in order to find it. I mean, it's not like it's hidden off in its own tiny corner of the internet. And the people searching for it must have spelled it correctly, so they were already 2/3 of the way towards finding it.
They forgot to add "naked" after all of those queries on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Beat the computer, program your life.
Im not in the list, i can sing and i can also make sex videos of myself and leak it onto the internet. I wonder what their competitive edge is, hmm..
Oh, come on...people search go to google to search for yahoo.
LOAD "SIG",8,1
People have been using Froogle to look at product pictures rather than to buy I think:
1. bikini
2. mini skirt
3. prom dresses
4. lingerie
5. little black dress
6. poncho
7. t-shirt
8. sports bra
9. red dress
10. low-rise jeans
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
...I don't think that I googled for any of these in the past year!
One wonders how something like Amazon, CNN, Fox News, or Ebay makes it here. I don't even have bookmarks for these. I just type in "amazon.com" every time I want to go there. I certainly don't have to search for it!
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
SCO. That was me. And "linux". That was me too.
But "Britney"? I have no idea where that came from. There was that one night when I drank all those Bud Lights...
All but a handful of the top-ranking searches required only one or two familiar keywords to yield meaningful results, a proper name, a place, a single object of interest, such as a sport like cricket.
But will the Zeitgeist total queries that ask the same question in many different ways because users don't know the keywords needed to define and limit their search?
At the bottom they had a link to Pigeon Rank which I find very funny. I don't know how recent it is but it's new to me.
Google is great for the occasional joke like this.
The rules of cricket are actually quite simple, and deftly explained here.
The Rules of Cricket as Explained to a foreign visitor
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.
This description of the game is remarkably accurate.
I'm kind of wondering if there are a few million people out there with borderline (or not so borderline) cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder who type britney or mp3 into google over and over again hoping for something new to show up.
It's kind of like the 1-900 phone polls that allow you to vote over and over again for your favorite <whatever> but get corrupted by a few people using their parents' phone line and the redial button.
If google took more of a one-man one-vote philosophy and only counted a search term once per persistent cookie, they might get a more varied list.
Orlando Bloom?!?
I can't believe eBay was so high up the list. Seriously, how many people google for eBay? Is eBay.com (or ebay.{your country's domain ending here}) that hard to remember?
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Do people actually use one word searches? Or are these just the most popular searched words? Or does Google aggergate all the different searches into categories? (e.g. "brittney spears CD" and "brittney spears lipsync" ends up as "brittney spears")
What I find interesting is that some people use google to go ebay, cnn, bbc. Many people are using google not as a search engine, but as a quicker way to get to a site than typing www.cnn.com (or even cnn.com). I find it hard to believe that sooo many people don't know the URL for ebay or cnn. Even the BBC has a .com domain!
It might have to do with the fact that many people use google as their home page (or have a google search box in the browser).
You'd never guess that Britney had enough time on her hands to do that many searches on herself!
Than again, maybe you would!
Because zeitgeist is a single word that conveys more information than the three word phrase "year end summary".
More information, fewer words - one of the benefits of an expanded vocabulary. Just ask Homer. ;)
It is somewhat surprising that France, China and India are ahead of Iraq in searches, when there is so much going on in the Mid-East; Google News home page consistently has a new item on Iraq.
Don't know why France got sooo popular, but China and India are there because of BPO.
Oh..OK...Iraq and BPO(job losses) both were election issues.
I guess people read about Iraq once in the morning, and were looking at India and China about jobs rest of the day. Also, it shows that personal issues are always higher than those of nation or the world.
But France is still an enigma to me.
I think India won... in a 4 day test series ..
"who wants to X my Y" shows.
They can do that now!?
I bet the trans-gendered community will be happy with that news.
Ah, science. What an interesting time to be alive.
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
To see what people are currently searching for live, try Dog Pile Search Spy
Some of the searches can be a little disturbing...
At this point, I don't really care about if it does work or not. I'm just really sick and tired of people filling up Slashdot with useless spam. I know that I can turn off sigs, but I'd also miss some good ones. I'm also an IRCop, so I'm constantly being annoyed by having to deal with spammers. Those people also have "an ulterior motive". They're just using a different method of promoting it.
What a frickin time to release such a list when my wife's standing behind me wondering what the hell is keeping me while being devoid of any interest towards what she is saying:
Paris Hilton, Britney, Carmen and Pamela.. Oh Crap!!
I turn around in time to see her look turn in to disgust with the "You and your pervert buddies scored yet again this year!!" before she stomped off in to the kitchen..
Aaargh..time to take care of the History folder..
Rapid Nirvana
Would it surprise you to find that New England has about half the number of internet users as India?
Population of New England: 14,205,480 (2003)
Indian internet users: 18,500,000 (2004)
So, assuming 65-70% of New England population use the internet, New England has roughly 9 million internet users.
And Indian access is growing at a very resonable rate. I see no reason why it won't hit 50,000,000 by 2006.
Add to that the country's obsession with cricket, and it's understandable - imagine the fan bases of football, basketball, baseball and the WWE all following the same team and it will give you an idea of the scale of the following of the the Indian Cricket Team.
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
I sure hope that there's alot of stuff common to the world which is more important than [insert ditz here].
Of course the whole media blitz thing is a huge factor. This goes along with my point that there is a huge cycle of crap going around and around, feeding off of itself.
I don't claim to be an intellectual, maybe I just read to much into the list w/o considering all of the factors contribute to the number of hits.
If only Keith Jarrett had tits and could dance he'd be popular too. (sigh)
"Hmmm..I sure have heard a lot about this there Amazon thing. I wonder how to find it online. I know, I'll ask that Google thingamabog."
(Slamming my head against my desk repeatedly)
Check out Local Searches: Popular Entertainment - looks like the itinerary for my last date. :)
"Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology" -- Search and Destroy -- Iggy Pop
Is anyone else puzzled at why "britney spears" is the #1 overall query but also appears as #4 on the public figures list? If she is a public figure and the largest query, then why isn't she #1 there too? Do they have some method or classifying "britney spears" queries in to those that are public figure queries and those that are not?
Look at the top five popular consumer brand names:
1. ebay
2. walmart
3. mapquest
4. amazon
5. home depot
All of these have easy-to-remember addresses, yet people still seem to use search engines to find their sites. Note that the year's results are split between actual Web searches and news searches, so I don't believe it can be factored in that people are just trying to find news about those companies.
It seems more likely that people assume Google, MSN, or Yahoo search boxes are the "gateways" to The Internet. Is the address bar turning into a purely geek-related "feature?"
http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html Only them put "thesis writing" into top 10.
my opinion is the the top "whatever you want" word in all searches is "sex".
-- my 2 cents
was that goatse.cx went offline this year.
Let's have a moment of silence, please...
This is my first time looking at this annual data, and the most striking thing about it is how vanilla it is.
There is nothing interesting going on; it appears most people are depressingly mundane in their interests and tastes. Where are all the 'rugged individualists', the 'rebels without a cause'? As much as we pay lip service to our desire to stand-out, we are strangely sheepish.
I am begining to believe Asimov's 'The Marching Morons' is, in fact nonfiction...
This is why all marketing is incredibly stupid, because it is based on the most common attribute in order to maximize profits.
Conversely, we have the technology today to automate the personalization of products - which, strange as it may seem, would actually produce more profit (consider, not only would we gather all of the vanilla folks, we would also pull in those wanting unique attributes: X + Y > X every time). Yet most, if not all businesses refrain from this approach.
Given that - this data is useless to me, other than to make me look around at my fellow men and women for the tell-tale vacuous stare.
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
This is like calling 411 for the number to 911.
Jesus Christ man - hot stuff and all that rot - but you ought to give blokes a headsup about non-work-safe links!
See that long UID - that's what you get for lurking too long
With pornography and sex related items being some of the most popular queries for search engines, why do they never seem to make it in to Google Zeitgeist?
slashdot!=valid HTML
i didn't realize cricket went beoynd england and australia.
weird thing is nothing about the olympics in the results.
And the world series for cricket really
Just to keep things straight.... its called the World Cup of cricket or The Cricket World Cup
um, don't you see how i put (NSFW) after the link?
what?
are you trying to go into the ins and outs of cricekt?
I'm a little curious as to why you felt the need to post this in the first place. If you are that passionate about it, why don't you do something to fix the problem? What good does it do to come here and call people stupid, and moronic, and have a very holier than thou attitude? For someone who is supposedly as educated as you are, you don't seem to be using it very well.
I like blogger, gmail, the search engine - they just kick ass all around.
Bush was a load Barbara should've swallowed.
Unfortunately, the US school system has devolved somewhat in recent years. Students are taught to avoid oppressive dictionaries and seek meaning from within.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
because there are more people playing and watching cricket than those who play and watch american football and baseball combined. think global!
(Ok, so I made that up, but it wouldn't surprise me)
--
Can you do the same with viagra and cialis?
(quietly goes back to searching for britney spears and george bush on google)
See that long UID - that's what you get for lurking too long
Speaking of britney spears (no, not a gem, the site is):
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html
I wonder what happened to the overall images.google.com top10... it must have been too filthy to put it on there:P
0x or or snor perron?!
If anyone didn't notice, Linux is number 5 on tech stuff searches. If the same people who search for Britney Spears and Spongebob are searching for Linux, maybe it's making a dent.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. -- Larry Wall
The most searched name in 2004 was Britney Spears. The following quote is ridiculous regardless of the sitting president.
Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.
What if Digg added local news and a Slashdot inspired comment karma system? ---
http://houndwire.com
Looking for T&A, thugz and toons.
And we thought television was the vast wasteland.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Google's new service "Google Suggest" (beta) uses the same algorithm to guess what you're looking for and suggest terms while you type.
... >> Google suggests: poems, pottery barn, post office, etc... [not what we're looking for]
A quick test reveals that this service, like the Zeitgeist, is completely out of touch with reality too:
-Type: "po"
-Continue: "por"... >> Google still suggests silly things like: porsche, portable dvd players, etc... [obviously not what we're looking for, can't afford it]
-Let's stick to it: "porn"... >> Google has just stopped suggesting alternatives, although it could have mentioned "pornalíy" (a beautiful town in Slovakia), "pornattaya" (a famous Thai writer), "pornocrates" (a classic painting by Belgian artist Félicien Rops), etc...
This is disapp...
hey they have the stats per country too.. (google.nl/zeitgeist in my case) cool :)
Man, It got +5 inforamtive. LOL. :D
Our diversity is our strength
slashdot the google search for the term 'britney spears', thus guarenteeing it a top-10 spot on the 2005 zeitgeist... nice going, /.!
This could be the result of an error I'm guilty of from time to time. Having the homepage set to google, and accidently typing an address in the google search area, OR having the google toolbar and typing the address in there by mistake OR running firefox and just having the search box there.
Don't Blame me if I seem bitter, I'm at work, and the TV only plays soap operas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_series
there is simply no mentions of the iraq war and the US elections? looks like something is wrong somewhere as these two were heavy issues this year...
The rules of cricket are actually quite simple
Riiiiiiiiiight. Now please give me a concise but accurate one sentence explanation of when "leg before wicket" is called.
That's a bizarre number one seatch query seeing as she hasn't really done much musically all year. All she did was get married.
Unless Google's image search data was included...
Okay Mods! That was meant to be funny.
The answer is quite simple: divergence
As we know, by 2001, everybody had an internet connection. "Sex," "porno," "boobies": common enough search terms for green-horns. But now, after two full years of ravenous pornography consumption, your average internaut has found his dream girl...
...be it a hot, cling-wrapped asian chick or a mature bored housewife covered in whipped cream. A hairy Byelorussian farmgirl or a boodylicious urban Black woman.
If Mr. Joe Internaut still hasn't found his kink, then he isn't using the right parameters.
God bless the Internet,
Dr. Cody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket for more information.
yeah, cos if you, me or AC was on that list we wouldn't BE celebs, or would we?
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
Two questions come to mind...
:-p
1) How come mp3 is only #3 on the list of tech searches, when it's the only item from that list on the general list?
2) Do that many people REALLY need to use Google to find ebay or amazon?
Twenties Retirement
Now we know where the DNC went awry. The public wants titties for president! Kinda sad.
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
don't mean to be a troll, but although they're relatively
small (yet innovative and profitable) marketshare in the PC space,
it now appears that like their early years in the PC space,
they've finally made it to again number one in the consumer space.
so congratulations and mery christmas apple -- you have proved that
if you just focus on making a great product, they will come.
| Popular Consumer Electronics - 2004
| 1. ipod
| 2. digital camera
| 3. mp3
| 4. xbox
| 5. playstation 2
| 6. portable dvd player
| 7. plasma tv
| 8. digital camcorder
| 9. pda
| 10. electric scooter
regards,
j.
don't mod me down, i'm just an occasional troll.
and this has got to be more interesting than all the jabber
about some ditzy chick called 'spears' (or something like that).
I wonder if the report includes the number of links removed from Google under DMCA and the number of people searching for items that would have brought these links...
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Then there's the rules for Brockian Ultra-Cricket as explained here.
* Rule One: Grow at least three extra legs. You won't need them, but it keeps the crowds amused.
* Rule Two: Find one extremely good Brockian Ultra Cricket player. Clone him off a few times. This saves an enormous amount of tedious selection and training.
* Rule Three: Put your team and the opposing team in a large field and build a high wall around them. The reason for this is that, though the game is a major spectator sport, the frustration experienced by the audience at not actually being able to see what's going on leads them to imagine that it's a lot more exciting than it really is. A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.
* Rule Four: Throw lots of assorted items of sporting equipment over the wall for the players. Anything will do - cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis racquets, skis, anything you can get a good swing with.
* Rule Five: The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scored a "hit" on another player, he should immediately run away as fast as he can and apologize from a safe distance. Apologies should be concise, sincere, and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.
* Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins.
Talk about a glaring oversight... what's missing from that list? Not on the top 10, not the top 10 tech, not the top 5 brands, not anywhere, not mentioned once...
Does anyone other than me find it unlikely that Google themselves would be *nowhere* on those lists? That seems very strange... and unlikely.
the top news queries are cnn and bbc... hard addresses to remember.
I can see the case, but still not where Google would come into play - did you do a Google search to find the hospital you are using? Or were you referred there by a doctor?
And in such a case a hospital specific search might be used, not the generic word "hospital" (though perhaps the singular word is also culled from any search containing it).
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Do check http://cricket.org/ though --- a.k.a. http://www.cricinfo.com/
I would guess that American sport following is split between at least Baseball, Football & Basketball. Then, the support & interest is further split between the different teams/clubs that play in the NBA, MLB & NFL.
In India (and also Pakistan & Sri Lanka I guess), the sport following is almost all cricket -- and then the fans are mostly interested only in the national team's performance, in international matches.
This, along with the 1 billion plus population in this part of the world, might go some way towards explaining why this non-American sport makes the top 10...
The grandparent's last line: "This description of the game is remarkably accurate." , however, is very informative.
I hadn't thought of that, I was only considering the news angle. YuCK
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A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
Did someone pay them not to show
Mozilla browsers was on the increase
and also the Linux Platform?