Google Lists Most Popular Searches Of '08

Data Miners Compile Global Lists Of Most Popular Terms And Trends, With Palin On Top As Fastest Rising Search

(CNET)  With 2008 coming to an end, the data miners at Google, which performs more than 60 percent of searches worldwide, have compiled their Zeitgeist lists of the most popular search terms.

These latest lists include these categories: U.S., top of mind, politics, trendsetters, showbiz, sports, and around the world.

In the category of fastest-rising global searches (comparing 2007 with 2008 searches), Sarah Palin comes in at No. 1 and President elect Barack Obama at No. 6, trailing "beijing 2008," "facebook login," Tuenti" (the equivalent of Facebook in Spain), and "Heath Ledger."

In other words, Sarah Palin's more than 15 minutes of fame catapulted her into the search stratosphere.

Fastest rising global searches:

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login
4. tuenti
5. heath ledger
6. obama
7. nasza klasa
8. wer kennt wen
9. euro 2008
10. jonas brothers

Google also looked at trends, such as green, social networks, and most popular cocktails. The venerable martini tops the cocktail list, while Facebook is the top social-network search term.

From a global perspective, Google's YouTube was the most pervasive search term of 2008, making almost every country list and topping many of them. The growth of YouTube, which is the sources of about 40 percent of video streams in the U.S., indicates the massive shift toward Web video from other forms of media and entertainment.

[legacyabq]

That was a Saturday Night Live thing. Why do you people continue with the charade? Is character assasination your thing? Grow up!

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Posted by rhs648 at 04:20 PM

Just for the record, it''s true!
They used it on SNL because it was so funny, but it did happen.
She was ripe for parody.
Im glad the election is over though, I sure was tired of it!

[vjhahn]

Palin may not have said she can see Russia from her home, but she said some pretty similar (and just as dumb):

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They''re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

[centerfall94]

Look the Witch of Wasalia made it to the top! LOL! She''s at the top of my ****list too!!

[rhs648]

Correction

I live in WI and I can see Russia from my back window.

Posted by karlo59

Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her home. That was a Saturday Night Live thing. Why do you people continue with the charade? Is character assasination your thing? Grow up!

[rhs648]

I live in WI and I can see Russia from my back window.

Posted by karlo59

Sarah Palin never said she could see her Russia from her home. That was a Saturday Night Live thing. Why do you people continue with the charade? Is character assasination your thing? Grow up!

[billpl-2009]

"Yeah! I haven''''t searched for a single one of these (and don''''t even know what some of them are). I am so uncool that it makes me cool. By the way, can anyone tell me what tuenti, nasza klasa, and wer kennt wen are?" -- Posted by Inketolstoy

why don''t you Google them and find out

[billpl-2009]

"Sarah Palin please go away. " -- posted by jcnbma1

No, Please Don''t!!

The more popular she gets...
The harder Barack will have to work.

that''s win, win in my book

[inketolstoy]

Yeah! I haven''t searched for a single one of these (and don''t even know what some of them are). I am so uncool that it makes me cool. By the way, can anyone tell me what tuenti, nasza klasa, and wer kennt wen are. I''m assuming they are foreign words, but not sure?

[karlo59]

I live in WI and I can see Russia from my back window.