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As the (deservedly) most popular search engine on the Web, Google actually has some value in tracking trends and culture. Their end-of-the-year Zeitgeist page<\/a> has some interesting info on it, about top searches, and what topics increased or declined in popularity.<\/p>\n

(Via Brad Choate<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the (deservedly) most popular search engine on the Web, Google actually has some value in tracking trends and culture. Their end-of-the-year Zeitgeist page has some interesting info on it,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/zeitgeist.html","url_meta":{"origin":1443,"position":0},"title":"Zeitgeist","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Dec-07 2:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not the end of the year, yet, but Google's posted it's Zeitgeist for 2007 -- a list of most popular search subjects.\u00a0 Fun....","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3344,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/whats_hot_whats.html","url_meta":{"origin":1443,"position":1},"title":"What’s hot, what’s not","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Dec-02 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Google has published it's 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist, using the queries placed through the massive search tool to track what people were interested in. 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