Tag: ZEITGEIST

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/22/new-google-zeitgeist-facebook-status-trends-2009/'; Just released on the Facebook blog, the status trends of 2009 make for some very interesting reading. In many ways they mirror the results of Google's search trends, but I have to admit that Facebook has the edge here because it's personal. Rather than simply being 'interesting' -- ...

Every year Google releases a zeitgeist, a list of everything that is popular on the web based on their search data. But what if once a year just isn't enough for you? Then you turn to Evri. Evri is a site currently in beta that uses news sources on the web to chart the popularity of different subjects in the categories of People, Places and Things. Clicking on the individual circles in the ...

What's everyone curious about right now? The "hot" searches on Google change rapidly and may be easily affected by a huge number of influences; Now you can obsessively watch those hot searches and smugly celebrate to yourself when you know why one certain term instantly bounces to the top. Previously, the Google Zeitgeist was the main source of insight into the minds of the masses. Hot Trends ...

At the end of every year Google releases a Zeitgeist that ticks off the year's most popular searches, which is good, clean fun for info-addicts like me. The Google Zeitgeist for 2006 is now out, and though it's not quite as fascinating, for some reason, as Zeitgeists past, the year's Top 10 searches are pretty interesting: bebo myspace world cup metacafe radioblog wikipedia video ...

Google's Zeitgeist, which shows what people have been searching for lately, is always a fun distraction, and I look forward to their year-end Zeitgeists more and more every year. This year's 2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist, just released, is no exception. Too much data for me to sum up here, so head on over to Google and check out all the pretty graphs. [Via Waxy.org] ...