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Thursday 15 December 2011

Google+ Comes In At No. 2 On Google’s Own List Of Fastest-Growing Searches Of 2011


Google Zeitgeist 2011
Well, this is convenient. Google published its 2011Zeitgeist list of the fastest-growing search terms of the year. The No. 2 term on the list, right behind No. 1 “Rebecca Black,” is its own product, “Google+”. Since nobody ever heard of Google+ until this year, and it received loads ofnews coverage as Google’s strongest attempt yet to take on Facebook, searches for the term rose more than 10,000 percent.
Remember, Google’s Zeitgeist is a curated list based on the fastest-growing search terms of the past year, not the ones with the most absolute volume. This focus produces a more interesting list of trending topics for the year. Overall, the list this year is Apple-heavy with “iPhone 5″ (No. 6), “Steve Jobs” (No. 9), and “iPad2″ (No. 10) all showing up. The Japanese word for Fukushima, “東京 電力” (No. 8), also made it, as did “Battlefield 3″ (No. 3) and “Casey Anthony” (No. 4).
This year, Google is picking up its game with animated charts and other visualizations. It also breaks out sub-lists of Fastest-Falling searches (sorry, MySpace, Hi5, and Meebo), Fastest-RisingPeople (Black, Jobs, Adele, Charlie Sheen), and Fastest-Rising Consumer Electronics (Kindle Fire is No. 1, beating out iPhone 4S).
Also check out Twitter’s Year in Review and Yahoo’s top searches of 2011. Below is a comparison of Google’s and Yahoo’s top 10 searches for 2011.
Google’s Fastest-Growing Searches 2011
1. Rebecca Black
2. Google+
3. Ryan Dunn
4. Casey Anthony
5. Battlefield 3
6. iPhone 5
7. Adele
8. 東京 電力 (Fukishama)
9. Steve Jobs
10. iPad2
Yahoo’s Top 10 Searches 2011
iPhone
Casey Anthony
Kim Kardashian
Katy Perry
Jennifer Lopez
Lindsay Lohan
“American Idol”
Jennifer Aniston
Japan Earthquake
Osama bin Laden
Source:http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/15/google-plus-zeitgeist-2011/

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