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."

CNN?

[Adversive]

Why would you go to Google to look up CNN?
Doesn't it seem more logical at just type in http://www.cnn.com ?

Oh yeah. People are stupid.

Re:CNN?

[ergo98]

I've noticed an odd proliferation of people who seem to associate google with "using the net". i.e. I walked up to the desk of a peer computer professional and told him about a great computer hardware site, to which he pops up google and punches in the URL, following the "uh...do you just want the website?" first link. The only reason he did this was that it's become a habit to him (meaning lots of extra ad impressions for Google).

Google and online language shift

[madmagic]

Top Holiday Searches 2001:
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 :) -- is a traditional English language word.

It's beginning to look a lot more like an international net. Will Cantonese words top the list by '05? '10?

-Patrick

What I'd like to see...

[eaddict]

Is a list of everything I searched for all year. It would be neat to for google to allow you to sign-in and record what you are looking for. You need not sign-in if you are looking for something that you don't want recorded.

Re:Google and online language shift

[JanneM]

It's even more interesting that a Swedish word manages to get the fifth spot; Half the population must have been searching for it to get this high...

/Janne

Re:CNN?

[qweqwe]

There's also another reason. The google query:
slashdot site:cnn.com
gives you different information than a simple CNN search for "slashdot". It tells you the most popular (i.e. most linked to) articles on CNN that refer to slashdot. Often times, this is more important since, as far as the world is concerned, these are the most memorable Slashdot articles.

Re:Google and online language shift

[Anonymous Coward]

interesting, but too bad it doesnt show the number of searches, instead of a ranking
there's no way to tell if christmas got 85% of the searches, or 25%

Re:Loft Story

[mike.richards]

january 2002's number one gaining query:
"loft story" and loana

;)

Re:What you WOULDN'T like to see...

[ymgve]

Interesting thing is, that here in Norway, some of the 'evidence' in a poison murder case was that his web history (Gathered from his OWN computer, thankfully) showed up searches for 'murder', 'Thallium' (a strong poison), 'identify', 'traceability' and 'tissue'.

The article can be found here [www.vg.no] (Norwegian only)

No way

[_ganja_]

OK, I think this is just made up and not based on seaches at all. I think we all know that if this was based on search engine queries it would look something like this:

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.