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Social networking, pop stars and Sarah Palin are on the minds of computer users around the globe.\u00a0Today, Google released Zeitgeist 2008<\/a> which\u00a0compiles various categories of search queries from their popular search engine to create a snapshot of what the world’s been looking for this year.<\/p>\n

The number one fastest rising search term from global users was Sarah Palin. Based on her internet popularity, maybe Obama made the wrong pick for his new Secretary of State<\/a>? The rest of the top ten was rounded out with “Beijing 2008,” social networking sites from the U.S.<\/a>, Spain<\/a>, Poland<\/a>, and Germany<\/a>, President Elect Barack Obama, “Euro 2008,” and celebrities Heath Ledger<\/a> and the Jonas Brothers<\/a>. (Post-modern moment: In writing this post, I just\u00a0googled several of those terms, thus adding to their popularity. It’s\u00a0a vicious circle, from which the Jonas Brothers are benefitting.)<\/p>\n

Google has also provided top 10 lists for 35 different countries<\/a> and\u00a0what people are looking for proves\u00a0telling….<\/p>\n

Australians like searching for internet related topics, but\u00a0the term\u00a0“underbelly” cracked the top 10 of fastest rising terms. Not simply an attempt to find out more about marsupials’ pouches, Underbelly<\/em> was a popular TV miniseries<\/a> about gangland killings in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Brazilians have\u00a0a younger web-surfing crowd as their top two queries lead to a site for pre-teen girls<\/a> and a popular\u00a0manga title<\/a>.\u00a0Italians are looking for jobs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Spaniards have a love affair with soccer<\/a>. South Africans have a love affair with Chuck Norris. Chileans have a love affair with themselves – “Chile” is the number one search term there.<\/p>\n

Weather (or wetter, meteo, \u043f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 or weer) is a popular search everywhere.<\/p>\n

Indians’ favorite sites reflect the number of citizens abroad<\/a> (which the World Bank reports as 5.7 million<\/a> ), their interest in government salaries<\/a>, their devotion to cricket and to Bollywood starlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong has to take the prize for the most schizophrenic web surfers. Their top 10 fastest rising terms included Earth Day, Alexander Graham Bell, and artists Marc Chagall<\/a> and Diego Velasquez<\/a>. Look out for an environmentally-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing phone from the Hong Kong market in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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