It is New Year’s Eve (for some still, anyway), and Google has created yet another Doodle on the homepage to look back at the most noteworthy Google Doodles of 2012. Many of the year’s most talked ...

Google has revealed its “Zeitgeist 2012” report, recapping the past year in search queries. The extensive analysis of 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages offers an interesting flyover, and serves ...

After presenting its fastest-growing searches for the year in print, Google has made a video recap of the last 12 months. The search giant confirmed that to date in 2012, it has serviced 1.2 trillion ...

What captured the world’s attention this year? What news events had people buzzing loudest? Such questions would have been significantly more difficult to answer before the turn of the century. But ...

Ah, the sheer beauty of social trends. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a beret wearing hipster that fights the grain, or you’re one of the flannel-wearing sheep who blindly follows the top dog, ...

LOS ANGELES — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a ...

(1) A snapshot in time by week, month and year of what people were searching for in Google. Zeitgeist results were routinely published for the public beginning in 2001 but were dropped in 2007. (2) ...

Normally, I’m not one to overly promote The Man. Google certainly is The Man these days. (One caveat: I have no problem promoting The NBC Man, who ultimately signs my paychecks. What can I say?) But ...

I am not sure I understand this one. Jessica from Google posted in the Google Web Search Help forums asking forum members how they heard about the Google Zeitgeist. She wrote: With 2012 coming to a ...

I juxtaposed Google Zeitgeist 2006 vs. Yahoo Buzz 2006 yesterday in “Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers.” Digital Markets TalkBacker saran945@... underscored: “no words/phrases repeated in both ...

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