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Google Recaps 2001
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Mon Dec 31, 2001 09:47 AM
from the searches-that-made-the-year dept.
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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Interesting story (Score:3, Funny)
CNN? (Score:1, Interesting)
Doesn't it seem more logical at just type in http://www.cnn.com ?
Oh yeah. People are stupid.
Re:CNN? (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, on Sept 11 a co-worker took a screenshot of an MSN Search of "www.cnn.com" which returned no hits.
And immediately underneath is asked if you wanted to visit similar sites, such as http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com].
Nostradamus (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the day, when I was naturalized as a US
citizen, people had an objective look towards life.
But after years of CNN, reality TV and Sports entertainment shows;
i guess they are starting to develop a sixth sense for bullshit.
Voodoo will determine the outcome of the next election results,
and maybe, maybe the IRS will take coconut for tax-payment.
Top Combination (Score:4, Funny)
Consider a Harry Potter movie that starred Britney Spears and Nostradamus (hmm, he's dead, we'll have to go with the next choice, Osama Bin Laden as the male lead), with the two remaining Beatles composing the music (which will be simultaneously released on Morpheus), utilizing Windows XP as the OS for the animation effects with the CounterStrike rendering engine. Nokia and Amazon will be major sponsors, with their logos splashed on all attire and walls. CNN will be the primary media outlet for press releases regarding this movie, with tennis star Anna Kournikova doing the reporting.
If any producers are interested in doing this, give me a call. It'll be just fab, baby!
Google and online language shift (Score:5, Interesting)
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
It's beginning to look a lot more like an international net. Will Cantonese words top the list by '05? '10?
-Patrick
Seattle Earthquake... (Score:5, Funny)
Big Brother (Score:1, Redundant)
I have a site [gamepsy.com]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 [google.com] on Google that they have in this Zeitgeist. Creepy.
Windows XP popularity (Score:5, Funny)
5. anthrax
6. windows xp
7. osama bin laden
So Windows XP is more popular than osama bin laden but not nearly as popular as anthrax.
Wait 'til the Microsoft Marketing Department gets a hold of this.;-)
Re:Windows XP popularity (Score:4, Funny)
Anthrax or Osama bin Laden? I think it's a safe bet they already have Windows XP.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Tragedies (Score:2, Insightful)
Add to that September 11th. People again began searching for something that was gone only after it had been destroyed.
Why can't we as Americans.... as people, appreciated the wonderful things we have before they're gone?
What I'd like to see... (Score:2, Interesting)
What about other Search Engines? (Score:1)
Top 10 Sports Queries (Score:4, Funny)
1. anna kournikova
I wonder how many were in the new image search engine [google.com]Loft Story (Score:4, Informative)
Interesting that Loft Story is the more popular TV request. For those who don't know Loft Story was the French version of Big Brother, with only a few variation.
The funny thing is that we actually got a couple fucking (there was a hottie stripper among the candidate, she eventually won, search for Loana), and if it was not shown on TV, the whole thing eventually leaked as MPEGs on the Internet (filmed in infrared :-)), so all those Loft Story request where really people looking for pr0n...
Goodbye 2001? Good riddance! (Score:4, Offtopic)
This year has been one of the worst years I can remember in my entire life. Good riddance, this year sucked a big one and kept on sucking. Lets have a look at my timeline:
January: I go into debt.
February: Work stress piles up, I go further into debt.
March: The dickhead who was managing PROPAGANDA's SQL database decides to "upgrade" the box and torches damn near a thousand articles. I rebuild from scratch in my spare time with the help of some friends.
April: A girl gets butchered and raped in the apartment across the walkway from me. I stay until 10:30 or so to see what the news crews have learned, and decide to stay the night over at Ginger's place because I'm too creeped out about the whole thing. I give a taped statement to the police about what I may have heard or seen the night before. I leave, and just as I head out, I see them bringing the body bag out, and see the outline of the girl's head in the bag and damn near throw up. I spend the next week or so living with Ginger until I can get a chance to arrange to move to a new complex.
May: I move to a new, secure, gated apartment complex. The apartment manager at my old apartment complex refuses to break anyone's lease, and refuses let anyone out. He also refuses to allow anyone to pay off the remainder of their lease. I'm screwed for $3000, and spend the next 6 months paying off two apartments. Hired a lawyer in preparation to sue my former apartment complex to get out of the lease. It doesn't work. I talk to a news crew and light a fire under their ass, that still doesnt work. Ultimately, i'm screwed for three grand, and now carry $1100 a month in rent expenses. Thank god I work at IBM.
June: I find out my new neighbor at the new apartment complex wears a monitoring bracelet around his ankle. Wonderful. He also wears a two foot long tattoo across his midsection. This kid is 19 years old. Work stress continues as rumors circulate through IBM that contractors are about to get the axe..Myself included.
July: Laid off. IBM cuts 40% of their workforce here in town. Everyone I know is out of work. The economy tanks hard as the dot-com loser bubble bursts. My convicted-felon neighbor has a screaming argument outside on his balcony. His girlfriend jumps off the third story balcony and ends up being carried out on a stretcher. The police take another statement from me about what I might have heard or seen. They chuckle at my bad luck after I tell them where I lived a few months ago. I figure a piano is going to fall through the ceiling and kill me one of these days.
August: Mad rush to take shelter in classes at the local college to wait out the storm. Just barely get onboard in time. Word trickles out of IBM that nobody expects to be re-hired until early 2002. Great. Now I have to ask my parents for financial help, and will continue to rely on them for the next 4 months.
September: Mr. Roger's retires, the world explodes, and Ginger calls me up at 7 in the morning and tells me the World Trade Center is on fire. I watch as another plane hits, and what we thought at the time to be 30 to 40,000 people fall to their deaths on fire and pulverized by concrete. The entire country goes to hell in a handbasket. I can count the number of UNIX-related job openings on one hand. I prepare Ginger for the idea that I may have to move to Colorado to find work. Theres one company up there still hiring.
October: My car dies...A broken crank shaft that would cost more to repair than the entire vehicle was worth. Now I need to get a new car while paying off two apartments. Thankfully, this is the last month I'll have to pay rent in two different places. The new car costs $5K, and automatically dumps my head in the debt bucket and holds it under the water for the next few months. I start making the rounds of people I may have unjustly skewered over the past year or two with little success.. Whatever jobs were open have all now dried up as the industry tightens its belt and locks the door for the long run. Anthrax, anthrax, anthrax, anthrax, anthrax.
November: A glimmer of hope. I run into a former coworker at a car wash, and beg her to bring word back that I've been holding out for months waiting to get back on the boat at IBM. More debt, more stress. Thank god I've got Ginger.
December: Cant go home for Christmas and be with my family because of Osama. Parents don't want me on a plane. Things start to settle down, i'm getting used to the idea of being unemployed. Just as I do, I get a call from a contractor firm that Big Blue as opened its doors. I do backflips and cartwheels and have my name on the dotted line within 45 minutes. The light at the end of the tunnel appears and Dick Clark looks like he's aged alot in the past year.
Good fucking riddance, 2001. I hope I forget you quickly.
Hrumph. (Score:1, Funny)
Cinco de Mayo (Score:1)
What I'd like in Google ;) (Score:1)
A killer feature would be to be able to upload a sample of you hummin or singing a song and have Google make a search for the title of that song :)
Women (Score:1)
Real men look at REAL porn.
What everybody was really looking for... (Score:1)
Number 1 search on new years day. Pr0n. Valentines day. Pr0n. Mothers day. Pr0n. Fathers day. Pr0n. Fourth of July. Pr0n. All summer. Pr0n. Haloween. Pr0n. Thanksgiving. Pr0n. Every holiday. Pr0n. That's only the important dates too!
Searches in July (Score:1, Funny)
Chandra (Score:1)
You have to give it to google. (Score:2)
I just hope it will stay that way because THAT'S the way it should be for people like us that wants to get something fast and to the point without having to code an SQL query form in the input search
Kudos to Google.
Mmm AC-130 (Score:1)
No way (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Google NOT the most Popular Search engine (Score:1)
*REAL* source of the hack. (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11H
why on god's green earth... (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/9-11-sear
Metaspy (Score:2)
A bit depressing (Score:1)
Though, I like to think the fact their servers ground to a halt (along with every other news agencies) had something to do with it. Maybe people assumed they got the address wrong when nothing came up.
Or so I hope.
Observations from 1stTime Poster, Long Time Reader (Score:1)
the last year in the millenium :) (Score:1)
my website (Score:1)
The Seattle(?) Earthquake (Score:2)
Nostradamus explanation (Score:1)
"top" retailers ? (Score:2)
Sports?! (Score:2)
2001
1. anna kournikova
Ofcourse. I'm very sure those searches were for the sporting capabilities of Anna Kournikova. The question is, which sport?
Cool... (Score:2)
Awesome...my company hosts that site...
DennyK
Re:Top Retailers... (Score:2)
Re:What the hell? (Score:1, Insightful)
Note you don't know when fm6 submitted their blurb-- it could have been on the ninteenth. You also don't know how many people besides you and fm6 submitted that story. Maybe LOTS of people submited the google zeitgeist thing, and they just liked fm6's comment.
I think about 90% of the problems with slashdot have to do with idiots who think things are some kind of race-- you have to be the first one to post a comment that seems insightful at a glance so you show up on the first pageload and people 'notice' you, and so you pick up on the early wash of moderators who just look at anything that looks remotely good (including comments that are just quotes pasted from the article), even if doing so means you don't read the extant comments.. You have to find stuff and submit it before anybody else and if slashdot doesn't immediately post this new great thing, then you somehow got gypped becuase you won the race and it was your right. Right?
Just go away. Go to kuro5hin. It will be be better for all of us; you can get instant recognition for submitting something early, and other people won't have to read your crud becuase k5 deletes trolls.
Blah.