Gotta love Google. They’ve posted their 2005 Zeitgeist report noting our search trends around the world. The top Google News searches of 2005 are (pathetically really given the No. 1 slot):
Google News - Top Searches in 2005
- Janet Jackson
- Hurricane Katrina
- tsunami
- xbox 360
- Brad Pitt
- Michael Jackson
- American Idol
- Britney Spears
- Angelina Jolie
- Harry Potter
The other categories also make for interesting reading, especially the rise of Wikipedia in the phenomena section.
On a slightly riling note for polaine.com, the Parisienne bakery, Polaine, has knocked us off the number one slot in Google. Sigh. Hey well, I think that’s where our name comes from originally anyway and I love bread, so it’s not so tragic. But this happened since I changed around my domain a bit (and put Playpen under /playpen rather than /blog) so, any of you linking to me please update, and those of you that don’t, do it now!
I think it will probably go down pretty badly for me to blog over the Christmas break. So Merry Christmas to you few readers out there.