I went looking for Google’s top terms of 2006 today after seeing that some of
them had been leaked
to the UK press. Nothing public was up on either the Google press releases
page (no surprise,
typically hours behind when Google actually releases news) or the main
Google Zeitgeist page
or the 2006
page. I should have remembered to do what Garett Rogers
thought of — follow the
regular URL patterns from past years to see if they’d been posted but not
publicized. Nice job, Garett.
Google Zeitgeist 2006
is live. Top terms for 2006 were:
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki
These will be filtered, of course. Otherwise, you’d see lots of queries for
sex and other navigational terms in there that I know have been dropped out.
You can also see top searches for news (paris hilton leads the pack),
what’s hot,
trends on
current events, what Google considers
milestones
(weddings, divorces, obits),
entertainment queries and
sports.