Learn Zeitgeist 2012: What Piqued Your Curiosity This Year?
As 2012 comes to a close, it's fourth dimension for our twelfth annual Year-End Zeitgeist—an in-depth expression at the "spirit of the times" equally seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past times year.
On our 2012 Zeitgeist website, you lot tin flame explore the most pop together with hottest trending search damage from some the world. This year’s site is our most global to date, alongside a amount of 838 lists from 55 countries. We’ve also added a number of novel features, including an interactive map that shows where together with when some of the hottest damage spiked some the world, together with a Google Zeitgeist Android app coming out afterward today (with an iOS version coming before long too).
For a round-the-globe tour through 2012, accept a expression at our video:
So what kinds of things were transcend of hear this year? While at that topographic point are perennial themes—“what is love?” topped the listing inwards 10 countries—it’s the odd together with surprising that caught our attending inwards 2012.
Global superstar Whitney Houston topped many countries’ lists equally good equally three of our overall trending lists—her unexpected kicking the bucket surprising fans some the world. From Korea, YouTube sensation PSY’s “Gangnam Style” signature trip the lite fantastic took the Blue Planet past times storm, landing him the #1 spot inwards many countries together with making his vocal the 2nd most trending enquiry of 2012. (PSY’s video became the #1 most watched inwards YouTube history—stay tuned for YouTube’s Rewind for more.)
Then at that topographic point was the superhuman. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s epic costless autumn jump made him the #6 globally trending person of the year, spell the 2012 Olympics together with its diverse athletes made it into virtually every country’s transcend trends. And NBA actor Jeremy Lin also rose on the charts this year, making him the #1 trending athlete globally.
People researched a breadth of other topics, too. Web users took a serious involvement inwards threats to the opened upward Internet, alongside proposals similar SOPA together with ACTA both finding their agency to the transcend of many countries’ lists. The USA elections brought attending to the candidates together with issues, non to the lowest degree the presidential campaigns’ most notorious political gaffes. And spell it powerfulness non hold upward surprising to run into that tragic natural disasters similar Hurricane Sandy ranked highly (#3 on the global trending list), it is reassuring to uncovering searches similar [donate to Sandy] spiking equally well.
We promise you lot bask exploring what people some the Blue Planet were searching for inwards 2012. It’s quite a snapshot of what makes us human: a blend of guilty pleasures together with higher pursuits.
On our 2012 Zeitgeist website, you lot tin flame explore the most pop together with hottest trending search damage from some the world. This year’s site is our most global to date, alongside a amount of 838 lists from 55 countries. We’ve also added a number of novel features, including an interactive map that shows where together with when some of the hottest damage spiked some the world, together with a Google Zeitgeist Android app coming out afterward today (with an iOS version coming before long too).
For a round-the-globe tour through 2012, accept a expression at our video:
So what kinds of things were transcend of hear this year? While at that topographic point are perennial themes—“what is love?” topped the listing inwards 10 countries—it’s the odd together with surprising that caught our attending inwards 2012.
Global superstar Whitney Houston topped many countries’ lists equally good equally three of our overall trending lists—her unexpected kicking the bucket surprising fans some the world. From Korea, YouTube sensation PSY’s “Gangnam Style” signature trip the lite fantastic took the Blue Planet past times storm, landing him the #1 spot inwards many countries together with making his vocal the 2nd most trending enquiry of 2012. (PSY’s video became the #1 most watched inwards YouTube history—stay tuned for YouTube’s Rewind for more.)
Then at that topographic point was the superhuman. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s epic costless autumn jump made him the #6 globally trending person of the year, spell the 2012 Olympics together with its diverse athletes made it into virtually every country’s transcend trends. And NBA actor Jeremy Lin also rose on the charts this year, making him the #1 trending athlete globally.
People researched a breadth of other topics, too. Web users took a serious involvement inwards threats to the opened upward Internet, alongside proposals similar SOPA together with ACTA both finding their agency to the transcend of many countries’ lists. The USA elections brought attending to the candidates together with issues, non to the lowest degree the presidential campaigns’ most notorious political gaffes. And spell it powerfulness non hold upward surprising to run into that tragic natural disasters similar Hurricane Sandy ranked highly (#3 on the global trending list), it is reassuring to uncovering searches similar [donate to Sandy] spiking equally well.
We promise you lot bask exploring what people some the Blue Planet were searching for inwards 2012. It’s quite a snapshot of what makes us human: a blend of guilty pleasures together with higher pursuits.