Google Recaps 2001

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."

Re:Top Combination

[agentZ]

Just because somebody is dead doesn't mean they can't put him in a major motion picture [imdb.com].

Re:CNN?

[jmz]

I've seen plenty of people who don't know how to use the address bar, or type in the url themselves :)

Loft Story

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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...

Re:What about other Search Engines?

[sconest]

Speaking of other search engines, I wonder how they still are in business with Google's current position.

I don't many more search engines that offer what Google offers e.g. :

• usenet search [google.com]
• images search [google.com]
• and the new beta one, catalogs search [google.com]

same situation with yahoo

[jiminim]

Set yahoo.com as someones homepage and they think that the only way to get anywhere is the search bar.

Re:Google and online language shift

[Anonymous Coward]

'adventskalender' (fifth spot) is a word in Germany.

Arg! No preview.

[NecrosisLabs]

That last bit should have been "...looking for information on narcotics is _not_ illegal

Re:CNN?

[mike.richards]

I'll probably lose a favorite appendage for this .. but for future reference:
robots.cnn.com is a wonderfully quick(er) mirror of the original www...

Re:CNN?

[nob]

Although it probably only makes up a small percentage of the searches, I know theres a lot of people (mostly webmasters) that will search for CNN over and over to see when the Google index updated. This is because the date is on CNN's page, so you can check the cache to see when the robot grabbed it. Of course, now Google is grabbing the more popular sites daily, so this doesn't work anymore.