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Evri.com: Zeitgeist for news

by Robert Headley Jul 5th 2008

Evri
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 flow chart opens up a list of news articles in which they appear. Using Evri.com is certainly one way to keep up to date on whats hot and what's not.

Tags: chart, graph, news, relationship, zeitgeist

Filed under: Internet, News, Web services, Google

Google Hot Trends gives the zeitgeist laser precision

by Grant Robertson May 22nd 2007


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 raises the stakes on the Zeitgeist by increasing the level of detail. Zeitgeist told you what was hot for the week, Hot Trends can show you what's hot today; Right now in fact.

Tags: google, hit trends, HitTrends, zeitgeist

Filed under: Fun, Internet

Google's 2006 Year-End Zeitgeist

by Jordan Running Dec 20th 2006

Google Zeitgeist 2006
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:
  1. bebo
  2. myspace
  3. world cup
  4. metacafe
  5. radioblog
  6. wikipedia
  7. video
  8. rebelde
  9. mininova
  10. 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

Filed under: Google

Google's 2005 Year-End Zeitgeist

by Jordan Running Dec 20th 2005

Google Zeitgeist 2005

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]

Tags: 2005, google, zeitgeist

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