Check the "hot trends" list and see if there's any change from last year. iTunes seems to dominate the list of popular queries: [www.itunes.com downloads], [itunes download], [itunes store], so Apple's iPhone and iPod continue to sell well.
According to Google Zeitgeist, the fastest rising query for 2008 was [Sarah Palin], followed by [beijing 2008], [facebook login], [tuenti]*, [Heath Ledger] and [Obama]. Google continues to be popular: [orkut] is the most popular query in Brazil and India, [youtube] is the most popular query in France, Spain, Italy and Mexico, the fastest rising query in Denmark was [google oversætter]**, while in Australia, the home country of Google Maps, the third fastest rising search was... [google maps].
* "Tuenti is a Madrid-based, invite only private social networking website that has been referred to as the Spanish Facebook," according to Wikipedia.
** Google Translate
Hehe.. iPods, anyone?
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays!
It's interesting that Spain, having only 45 million inhabitants, has had such an influence in the world wide Google trends.
ReplyDeleteI mean about the "Tuenti" thing, sense it's an "only Spain" thing, not latin America.
ReplyDeleteIt's indeed all the apple products in the hot google trends list
ReplyDeleteIf instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. Merry Christmas
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