Google video: 2011 world in three minutes

Google has published a traditional ZEITGEIST report, dedicated to the most popular search queries of residents of different countries from January to the end of November 2011.

The Russians did not go unnoticed - a hot dozen requests received from the territory of the Russian Federation was compiled. As you can see, our compatriots have completely different interests than the rest of the planet. All network users are in solidarity, perhaps, only in the manifestation of attention to electronic technical innovations. However, according to experts, this picture may not coincide with reality, since Google in Russia is inferior in popularity to Yandex.

The Google Internet giant, owning the largest search engine on the Internet and a number of other superpopular services, is not the first time on the eve of Christmas publishes a selection of the most popular search queries reflecting the main trends in the outgoing year. The Google Zeitgeist service summarizes and analyzes the flow of search queries arriving at the search system, and makes up the corresponding ratings for frequency/popularity of requests.

In 2010, an interactive map replaced simple graphs, which allowed to monitor the fluctuations of interest in a particular event at different points in the planet. The Google Hot Trends service in 2007 is more prompt, it determines the hundred most popular objects of Google for each time. Monthly and annual ratings are also compiled.

The German expression zeitgeist, meaning the "spirit of time", has been used from the 19th century to indicate the totality of all the features of this moment (philosophy, economics, literature, social structures, political climate, etc.) in their entirety, dynamics and trends.

In addition, Google reminded of the most noticeable events of the year with the help of a three -minute video clip containing video clips, photographs, quotes of requests and news tapes. Thus, resonant political events were mentioned in the video: Arab revolutions in Egypt , Tunisia , Syria , Libya , mass riots in Greece , and the liquidation of the American special forces of Al-Qaeda Ben Laden . The attention of users of the World Wide Web was also riveted to the March earthquake in Japan and a series of strong floods in Brazil at the beginning of the year.

Of the social events, the mention was deserved by the wedding of the British Prince William with Kate Middleton. Famous personalities who died this year are listed in the video: actress Elizabeth Taylor , Apple founder Steve Jobs , television journalist Andy Runi, Indian guru Satya Sai Baba and others.

The most memorable events of the year, according to Google, also included the end of the American space program Space Shuttle and the last launch of the NASA Atlantis reusable transport ship, as well as ceremonies in connection with the 10th anniversary of the Junior Journal of September 11 in the United States.

TOP-10 of the most popular requests in the world

According to Google, the most requests this year were made by the name of the thirteen -year -old singer Rebecca Black, who became famous with her song Friday after her video clip on YouTube received more than 167 million clicks.

In second place, in June, the Google+ service in June. Just three weeks after the start, a base of 10 million users was collected.

The third place was taken by requests about the life and details of the death on June 20 in a car accident at the age of 34 of the American actor Ryan Danna, who gained worldwide fame because of participation in the projects "Eccentric" and "Long live Bam!"

The inhabitants of Western countries were also interested in the process of young American from Florida Casey Anthony, from whom in July accusations of the demonstration murder of the 2-year-old daughter Keyly were removed. Requests in court took fourth place in Google statistics.

Interest in the Battlefield 3 video game was reflected in fifth place in the ranking. In the first week after the release, 5 million copies of this game were sold.

Requests were in connection with the sixth place in connection with the latest Apple iPhone5 smartphone scheduled for the market.

The name of the 22-year-old British singer Adele, who released his second album "21" this year, was also a popular request at Google. Adele was in the seventh place of the rating. Her album was the leader in the charts for 16 weeks in a row, 208 thousand copies were sold.

The eighth place in the Google list took requests in connection with the earthquake in Japan in March this year and the accident that followed at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 received international public resonance, interest in this event was estimated by the ninth place in the Google report.

And finally, the TOP -10 of the most popular queries is closed to the release of Jobs, - Apple - iPad2. Only for the first weekend around the world 500 thousand such devices were sold.

"Hot ten" requests of Russians

As ITAR-TASS notes, for Russia, where the Google search engine is noticeably inferior in popularity to Yandex, published statistics can hardly be called exhaustive, but some current trends have nevertheless reflected in it. So, after the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant, one of the most frequent Russian search queries in the “purchase” category was “dosimeter”. Google also noted the growth of the popularity of the singer Elena Vaengi , blogger Alexei Navalny, and also recorded significant interest in the AvtoVAZ model - Lada Grant car.

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2. +100500
3. Vkontakte
4. IPad2
5. Biglion
6. "Lada Grant"
7. Restaurants
8. Games for two
9. YouTube
10. Mobile version "Odnoklassniki"
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