For research, breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search at the world’s most popular search engine – Google. With a bit of analysis, this flurry of searches often exposes interesting trends, patterns, and surprises.
On a monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily basis, the Google Zeitgeist page is updated to reflect lists, graphs, and other tidbits of information related to Google user search behavior. These lists show top search phrases used on Google and even break the searches down by country! They also maintain lists of most used browsers and operating systems.
Zeitgeist Explained…
zeit·geist | Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-”gIst, ‘zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.
If Google aims to gather all the world’s information as well as make it easier to find, can there be any better entity to be mentioned in the same breath as the word ‘zeitgeist’?
