Facebook, Katrina Kaif Most Searched on Google by Indians
What technology and technologists most interested the online world this year?
Based on the most popular 2011 Google search terms, people were most interested in getting information on Apple founder Steve Jobs , the iPhone 5 , the iPad 2, and Google+ . In India, the top searched personality was actress Katrina Kaif while "Facebook" was the most searched term overall.
"This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year's Zeitgeist -- the spirit of the time,"wrote Amit Singhal , a Google Fellow, in a blog post. "With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms -- the terms with the highest growth in 2011 -- in many categories across many countries around the world."
On the list of fastest-growing search terms , Google's new social networking site, Google+, came in at a strong second, while the release of Battlefield 3, a first-person shooter video game, came in at number five, and the anticipated release of the iPhone5 was number six.
Non-technology-related searches in the Top 10 list of fastest-growing searches. Rebecca Black, a teen whose song "Friday" made a huge online splash, was on top of the list, which also included Casey Anthony, the American mother charged with killing her young daughter, singer Adele and the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan.
Google today also released a list of the fastest growing searches for consumer electronics.
Amazon's Kindle Fire topped that list, followed by Apple's iPhone 4s, the Sidekick 4g Android phone, the HP Touchpad and the Android app Spb Shell 3D.
The list of fastest-falling Google searches -- search terms whose popularity plummeted in 2011 -- was topped by Myspace, a social networking pioneer that has been eclipsed by the likes of Facebook and Google+. The fastest-falling list also included Hi5, another social networking site and Baidu, a Chinese search engine.
Other India-centric search results included "Facebook" topping the list of fastest rising search term and social activist Anna Hazare topping the list of fastest rising people in terms of Google search queries. The Salman Khan-starrer "Bodyguard" was the most searched movie by Indians in 2011 while the Indian Premier League topped the list of news searches.
(with inputs by Nikhil Pradhan)
via ComputerWorld
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