Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Google Zeitgeist

If you're generally interested in the shared mind that is our society, you'll love this year's Google Zeitgeist. It's a little more guided than last year, and I think that they've pointed out some interesting items.

Noteworthy:
4 of the top 10 items searched for in froogle are iPods
The Harry Potter book release gathered more queries than the movie release
Wikipedia is more popular than ever
Michael Jackson still makes the news
Green Day was a top 10 gainer in search this year (Kids love that punk rock)

Anyone who does marketing needs to memorize each of these graphs. Incredible. There's definitely some qualitative information in those quantitative pictures.

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