Google's 2006 Year-End Zeitgeist

Posted Dec 20th 2006 1:15PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Fun, Internet

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
rebelde
mininova
wiki

While MySpace is still king of the social networking heap here in the U.S., obviously Bebo is doing something right, particularly overseas. World Cup is an obvious search, and "video" and "wiki" show that it truly was the year of Web 2.0. It's interesting to see video sharing site Metacafe there, but not YouTube. Mininova, of course, is a popular BitTorrent tracker hosting links to torrents for TV shows, movies, and more. What about "radioblog"? It's a custom embeddable music player presumably popular with the MySpace set. That leaves Rebelde, which is an enormously popular Mexican TV series which concluded its run this summer and spawned an equally popular band called RBD composed of actors from the show.

But of course there's lots more to the 2006 Zeitgeist, so go check it out.

Tags: 2006, google, search, year, zeitgeist

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

12-20-2006 @ 2:11PM

Alex M said...

Rebelde: bleargh...

12-20-2006 @ 7:19PM

CTA said...

One of Rebelde's songs went diamond (Over 10 million sold) in just a few hours..

12-21-2006 @ 7:59AM

Guga said...

Is it my impression or is this ranking unordered?
If you go to Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends) and search: bebo,myspace,"world cup"
You will see that Bebo is the least expressive. If you add wikipedia and video to the search, you'll have a bigger surprise.
I wonder how this Bebo -- which I've never heard of -- could reach the top ten.

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