Slashdot Mirror
Google Zeitgeist '05
Garett Rogers writes "Google has just released their Google Zeitgeist 2005. From the site: 'It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names that make this a memorable year. (We'll leave it to the historians to determine which ones are lasting and which ephemeral.) We hope you enjoy this selective view of our collective year.'"
Congratulations on getting boobies for this thread.
In other news, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to be acquired by Drew Curtis' Fark.com (NASDAQ:FARK).
Firefox isn't there at all! What about the release of Firefox 1.5?
Who-knew-most-any-of-this? dept. would be better.
13. Any legal action is absolutly excluded. (Pi World Ranking List rules)
I think they forgot Star_Wars_Bootleg.torrent...
I bet some of the terms will stay in the top 10 because idiots like me didn't know what baidu, Ares and orkut meant and looked them up on Google.
Steve Ballmer's top search: 1. Chair Aerodynamics
How in the hell is Janet Jackson the top search? I understand everyone wants to see her nipple but that was in 2004... the begining of 2004 (February 1, 2004). Get over it.
I could understand Micheal Jackson for his strangeness. The man is like a walking car accident, we have to look. But the top search being Janet is insane.
The Internet is the Holy Grail of nudity, searching for one womans half covered nipple is really cuddling the complex nature of Googles Algorithm. Make your searches interesting, like "Bea Arthur humping a Camel" or "Shannon Doherty doing coke off a dead hookers butt" Make the people at Google work.
It is used for Evil(tm)
Damn. Only a few comments into the thread and we've already Godwin'd it.
Apparently even the mighty Google couldn't find these things.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
We'll know things have turned around when instead of "Janet Jackson" the top searches include "25th Amendment" and "impeachment."
You know what I'd like to see? Where's the top 10 search keywords for Google Images?
And so I don't have to ask again, Where are the top 10 search keywords for Google Images for people with SafeSearch turned off?
"Results 1 - 10 of about 540 for Shannon Doherty doing coke off a dead hookers butt"
"Results 1 - 10 of about 303 for Bea Arthur humping a Camel."
and for variety.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 258 for Bea Arthur and Shannen Doherty off a dead hooker camel's butt."
The big winners appear to be the Jackson family and Apple music players. What a curious and informed society we live in.
Why? Are you running out of ideas?
No, I just might not be using the best ones
Here's a hint: "Condoleeza Rice".
The people that read through my Google search history are really going to wonder why those two phrases appear together on an otherwise innocent, idle Tuesday afternoon.
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
yeah! google rulez. looks awesome. simplicity is the new complex.
I tried that, then I hit "I feel lucky."
That doesn't seem to do anything for me, just clears the search box...
All (ok, 99% of) the displayed charts have a 0 dip around April time (just around the time of the popes death)
:)
Did anyone else notice this and wonder just what happened at the data centre that day?
Catholics aroudn the world stopped masterbating to porn on that day. Leading to a huge drop in internet usage
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Some children are fascinated with breasts, along with some adults.
Which I guess explains why didn't they put up the statistics for Google Image search.