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Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises
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2005 Year-End Zeitgeist
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Zeitgeist This Week
Top 15 Search Queries: Week Ending January 9, 2006
1.  vince young
2.  texas longhorns
3.  emily stern
4.  dancing with the stars
5.  marcus vick
6.  CES
7.  lindsay lohan
8.  wedding crashers
9.  martin luther king
10.  bird flu
11.  USC
12.  isla fisher
13.  detroit auto show
14.  lou rawls
15.  drake bell
Monthly U.S. Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist Around the World (Monthly)
Zeitgeist Explained
zeit·geist | Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.

More about the Google Zeitgeist

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google's human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report.

We should note that in compiling the Zeitgeist, no individual searcher's information is available or accessible to us. What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition. We appreciate the contribution all Google users make to these fascinating bits of information.

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