December is traditionally the time when we sum up and recall the events and highlights of the year that almost was.
Through their annual Zeitgeist report, those evil people from Google have revealed that “Facebook” was 2009’s top “search query” — which basically confirms my suspicions that people have become too lazy to type “facebook.com” into an address field or plain too dumb to bookmark the site.
Other top searches included “hotmail”, “youtube”, “gmail”, “yahoo” (a touch of irony there), “ebay”, “myspace”, “bebo” and “google”.
Yes, you saw right: google!
Come on, seriously: Why the fuck would anyone google for “Google”?
“Spotify” takes top honours in Sweden (where, at least, it’s available), and South African mobile operator MTN ranked high amongst Nigerians (as did “aero” and “opera”, unlike in other countries). “Nasza klasa” (a Polish social networking service) scored unusually high points in European countries that are not Poland, as did the “Schweinegrippe” H1N1 outside of Mexico. Perennial chart-topper Michael Jackson notches up another posthumous award by grabbing the number-one spot on my personal favourite category, “Death of the Year”, beating out last year’s “deleb” Heath Ledger.
