zeitgeist

Searchers looking for last minute gifts for the special someone, researching the origins of Valentine’s Day, and music enthusiasts soaking in the coverage from this year’s Grammy awards comprised the majority of Google queries last week.

When Google put out its year-end Zeitgeist, an account of the hottest searches in 2006, bloggers immediately felt the list's creators were fudging it a little for decency's sake. Google responded on its blog saying the list was edited to save us from the boredom of constants and givens.

The Google Zeitgeist for the week ending June 5 (yes, it's slightly out of date) featured a smattering of sports-related items among the usual mishmash. In case you don't know, the Zeitgeist is a list of the top fifteen "gaining search queries."

I'm sitting here with Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords. He picked me up from the airport tonight. I have spent the last few hours telling him all about the Google Zeitgeist conference.

Media and Internet luminaries will be on hand to chat about all kinds of topics at Google's invitation-only event - with no reporting allowed.

Ever wonder what the heck people search for on Google? Wonder no more! Google summaries it's history of search terms each week, month and year, categorized by various subjects and countries of origin.