What Do People Most Want to Know
What Are the Most Asked Questions ?
What do most people want to know ?
King of the search arena Google has released it’s Zeitgeist for 2007.
That is to say what people are searching for - what has dropped in popularity and what has risen.
Given their massive dominance in this market it really does provide a social snapshot of out times.
Here are a few examples of the top search questions.
Who is …
who is god
What is …
what is love
How to …
how to kiss
Good news for the religious crown as God was number one and who is Satan just made it in a #10.
Romance clearly is alive and well with kissing but interestingly #9 was how to levitate !
The most popular TV show was Heroes and the movie was Tranformers whilst the most searched for song lyrics were Umbrella by Rihanna
The fastest rising new term was iPhone whilst the fastest falling was World Cup
Actual recipe for a dish was Ratatouille whilst fitness regime was taken by Pilates.
The results have been cleaned up by Google so as to remove any adult terms. It is believed though that as internet usage has spread the adult themed searches are reducing as a percentage.
An answer to Jordan’s question:
what is the best ever Christmas Song ?
According to Google the best ever Christmas song, as voted for by those in the UK is …
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - THE POGUES and KIRSTY MACCOLL
Do Google now decide exactly what everything in the world is and shape our opinions as well as our searches ?
What are you searching for and can you find it ?
Regards
Rod
Little Brother said,
December 18, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
Rod,
‘What are you searching for and can you find it?’ I seem to be able to find camera equipment very easily which is unfortunate.
LB
Witches of Eastwick said,
December 19, 2007 @ 9:32 am
Rod,
The Witches search for all kinds of things from hot gossip* to particle science. We found a revolutionary heat storage unit that so far has been a mixed blessing but our hopes are high. Yesterday we found the telephone number of the parcel depot that has repeatedly failed to deliver a package…. how did we ever cope without google?
WoE
* less so nowadays since we discovered this blog which provides trivia in spade-fulls
Rod said,
December 19, 2007 @ 9:34 am
LB
cheer up you’ll soon have everything !
Then it’ll be time to start replacing it
Rod said,
December 19, 2007 @ 9:36 am
WoE
pleased to be able to fill the the vacancy of Peddler of Trivia
I’ll keep shovelling in the hope of keeping your appetite sated !
RC