Google’s 2007 Year End Zeitgeist

If you’re wondering what was popular in 2007, check out Google’s Zeitgeist for the year, where they list the fastest rising searches of the past 12 months. Google doesn’t list the most popular queries, since they don’t change much per year, and they usually feature the names of companies Google might not like so much, so instead they feature the queries that have risen in popularity the most.
The search of the year was “iPhone”, with Apple’s breakthrough semismartphone capturing the interest of the most searchers, both in the U.S. and internationally. Other queries successful both here and abroad were Youtube” (#6 internation, #5 U.S.), Facebook (#3, #9), Webkinz (stuffed animals linked to an online community, #5, #2), and Club Penguin (Disney’s online virtual world, #10, #6).
Some terms were only popular in the U.S., with the rest of the world not caring as much about TMZ, Transformers, MySpace, Heroes, […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg