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Google Zeitgeist 2012
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- didsomeonesay 14y agoZeitgeist 2012 -> Germany -> Trending Car Brands 1. Opel 2. BMW 3. Audi 4. VM 5. Mercedes ... 4. VM ?? O_o
- liamk 14y agoI'm guessing VM is a common typo for GM?
- synor 14y agoVolkswagen probably.
- JBiserkov 14y agoI'm guessing VM is a common typo for VW made by Dvorak users.
- jonknee 14y agoI'm guessing there are no way near enough Dvorak users to have any typos show up on the zeitgeist.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoA common auto-completo?
- ohwp 14y agoPick one: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vm http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vm ;)
- Aardwolf 14y agoWhy is the #1 query never something I ever type?
- polyfractal 14y agoBecause you are not the majority?
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- zavulon 14y agohttp://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world/tv-shows http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world/tv-shows This is really sad.
- ergalassi 14y agoActually I'm amazed by the Brazilian presence among world searches, specially on TV shows, Performing Artists and #10 on Trending Searches. The "not so funny" part for Brazil is that 85% of this presence is related with a single TV channel (Globo).
- smackfu 14y agoI'm actually very surprised Homeland made it to that list. I thought it was critically acclaimed but not that popular.
- benburleson 14y agoWhy do I get Error 503?
- speedyrev 14y agoSo am I.
- _sentient 14y agoThat video was beautiful. It's easy to develop a narrow focus on your immediate surroundings. Sometimes it helps to take a step back and get a broader perspective of this wild, diverse and beautiful planet we're fortunate enough to live on.
- aidos 14y agoDefinitely puts things in perspective. With that thought, I'm going to stop work for the day and go and pick up my daughter.
- thesis 14y agoI had never seen the video of the soldier and his son. After a quick search I found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPlBy2-abA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPlBy2-abA The whole Google video is great. But this clip / video really got to me. Very touching.
- kristofferR 14y agoThe story about the little girl briefly shown in 2:26 is also incredibly touching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0
- chez17 14y agoIt really is fantastic. There is a beauty in the objectivity of that video. Images of incredible dedication and passion right next to images of war and destruction. A perfect view of what it is to be human. We are an amazing species. So capable of love and doing amazing things and simultaneously so capable of hate and destruction. Thankfully, it seems there is more love than hate as time goes on.
- calinet6 14y agoIs it wrong to love a company? I think Google is a good group of people. I'm glad that the world brought them together. I think there are a lot of companies out there like them, and I want to be a part of that. It gives me hope.
- yarapavan 14y agoFull List (PDF): http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//zeitgeist/2012/download/google-zeitgeist-2012-en.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
- killahpriest 14y agoIronically, I cant seem to be able to use `cmd + f` on that PDF.
- smackfu 14y agoYeah, very odd. It seems like the characters in the search index are offset from the real characters. d=a, e=b, etc. At least in Chrome's PDF viewer.
- rwos 14y agoIs this censored? There's nothing related to copyright infringement or porn in there. Also, the categories and trending/most-searched selection seems arbitrary. Every country has a different set of data.
- oinksoft 14y agoI wouldn't be surprised if their result set was filtered on the same rules used for Google Suggest, which do filter out terms presumably linked to controversial file sharing websites (Pirate Bay) and adult entertainment.
- batgaijin 14y agoI think it's funny that they censor pornstar names. I mean, it makes sense, but it's just funny how google instant quits working after a somewhat generic first name sometimes.
- josefresco 14y agoWhere's DDG with an unfiltered Zeitgeist for 2012?
- Surio 14y agoThat was supposed to be my line too. Seconded ;-) P.S: I am actually semi-serious in a way. I have actually witnessed the search bubble on colleagues' PC vs. mine so, I'm all for it.
- rubergly 14y ago"Play Station"? I assume they're aggregating similar terms, so is this just a case of choosing the wrong aggregate name? Google Trends reports "playstation" is MUCH more common than "play station" (looks like at least 10:1).
- scotty79 14y agoFails on iPad with 404 after watching the movie and clicking the "Begin journey" button. It tries to redirect to http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/explore-tablet.html http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/explore-tablet.html that seems to not exist.
- frankydp 14y agoWas surprised by this one 8. Donate to NASA
- patrickaljord 14y agohttp://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world/consumer-electronics http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world/consumer-ele... iPhone is not in the top 10, it was #2 last year. iPad is #1 though. http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-lists/global/fastest-rising-consumer-electronics http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-lists/global/fastest-r...
- trendnet 14y agoThis year iPhone is trending on Twitter (http://2012.twitter.com/en/trends.html http://2012.twitter.com/en/trends.html) and Facebook (http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3758102/facebook-stories-2012-pictures#3904655 http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3758102/facebook-stories-...) but not on Google. Something is not right. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%205,%20samsung%20galaxy%20s3 http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%205,%20samsung...
- nrp 14y agoTrending reflects the difference between the results for 2011 and 2012. Recall that until the iPhone 4S was announced, the assumption was that it would be called the iPhone 5, and was searched for by that term.
- chrisacky 14y agoOp op op op oppan. So, I was browsing through the source of the Zeitgeist pages (as you do), and I saw some pretty cool stuff. I started off by just wanting to know how the explore map was done [1] But then I saw #easter-egg in the source, and also easter-egg.css file being included. If you look at the very very bottom of the page on the right, you will see the Google colors. Hover over that for a Gangnam dancing character[2]. [1] : http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#explore [2] : http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#maia-signature (Easter Egg Here) I just made a JS Fiddle and posted a new submission on HN. http://jsfiddle.net/Layke/7hjTC/show/ http://jsfiddle.net/Layke/7hjTC/show/ <--- View the Easter Egg
- Surio 14y ago[Moved comment to other thread...]
- cfontes 14y agoMy country sometimes embarrasses me. Brazil is having the biggest trials against corrupt politicians in our history lasting almost 6 months now with several big figures being arrested and condemnt, and this is not even in the TOP 10, and the nº1 is Facebook followed by BBB12.
- Surio 14y ago>> and this is not even in the TOP 10, and the nº1 is Facebook followed by BBB12. You will have to wait for the competition to make that video. It will be aptly titled "search bubbles zeitgeist" 2012 ;-) (semi joking, ... I have witnessed the "search bubble" and I love the fact that there are companies like DDG, Lycos and Blekko providing search and curated results! Wish them all well) I know what you mean though. It is definitely a sign of our times. Huxley won and Orwell lost the crystal ball gazing contest. 1984 is gone (well, not entirely IMO) and we are all living in the Brave new world now. ;-P
- benbataille 14y agoWell, don't panic. Grass is not greener on the other side. France nº1 is a phone provider, nº2 football and nº3 is the French equivalent of Big Brother. The presidential election is not even in the TOP 10. Oh, and yeah, McDonalds is nº5. So much for French gastronomy...
- vitorarins 14y agoWatching that, I couldn't stop thinking.. "Google is ruling the world..Google is ruling the world.."
- mlapida 14y agoDoes anyone find it completely insane that the iPhone (4/4S/5) doesn't show up in the top 10 for Consumer Electronics? A little bit of massaging going on there?
- pdeuchler 14y agoSo essentially we are obsessed with triviality, materialism and celebrity.
- hnriot 14y agoand this surprises you? you forgot porn
- eze 14y agoWhen I lived in the US I was puzzled to find, say, May magazine issues available in newsstands as early as mid April. Similarly, it seems not only acceptable, but indeed expected, for major companies to review the year before it's over. Can Americans (or else) shed some light on this phenomenon?
- yan 14y agoMarking a magazine with a date in the future simply increases its shelf life. As for the year-end reviews, I assume people like to look back at a year toward the end and set goals for the new year at the start. Jan 2013, people don't care much for 2012 anymore.
- denzil_correa 14y ago503. That’s an error. The service you requested is not available at this time. Service error -27. That’s all we know. I receive a 503 error on the page.
- kinofcain 14y agoIt's amazing but not all that surprising how geeky the google plus hashtags are. I wonder if we'll see social networks splinter into cliques.
- shortlived 14y agoRussian HN'ers, I realize this is not the Yandex zeit but this entry puzzles me: что такое холокост The question: is this a meme? or why the sudden interest now? There were a bunch of videos associated with that query, none of which I could understand very well. Are they people just giving stupid answers? The other results paint an interesting picture of ru-net: Russians want to know meaning of "bro" and "mainstream", want to draw roses and are very interested in hacking email aka soap (soap is мыло, which sounds a bit like mail).
- cookiecaper 14y agoAm I the only one who can't see any video? Only sound plays in both Firefox and Chromium.
- krharper 14y agoSo sad to see the triviality that constitute the majority of our searches.
- barredo 14y agoThere is no way "iPhone" or "iPhone 5 is not on that list. http://cl.ly/image/0u0R2r12402a http://cl.ly/image/0u0R2r12402a (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%2C%20iphone5%2C%20ipad%2C%20ipad%20mini%2C%20samsung%20galaxy%20s3&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%2C%20iphone5%2...) http://cl.ly/image/2l2I1b3G4328 http://cl.ly/image/2l2I1b3G4328 (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%205%2C%20Galaxy%20Note%202%2C%20Microsoft%20Surface%2C%20Nokia%20Lumia%20920&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%205%2C%20Galax...) It's not even close. Note 2, Surface, Lumia 920, iPad 4 and iPad mini are 2 month old on the market. iPhone 5 it's been rumored and re-rumored for months before releasing it, then with all the problems attached to the iPhone 5 release, Apple Maps, record sales, or whatever... people must have searched for it quite a lot (as Google Trends data suggest) ps. Also, "Lana del Ray" ('Rey' is the correct) (sic, performing artists)? These lists doesn't seem quite right.
- andrewcooke 14y agoshe has released an album under both names - lana del ray was self-titled; born to die was lana del rey. and she's one of only 3 names i recognise from that list. but i agree that the lists appear to have "complex" selection criteria.
- barredo 14y agoThanks for the correction
- arn 14y agoCuriously, iPhone 5 was on the list last year (2011). That ended up being the iPhone 4S. http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-searches/iphone_five http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-searches/iphone_five
- friendly_chap 14y agoI am quite surprised nobody searches for porn on the internetz.
- teach 14y agoOh, I'm sure they still do. But it's not "trending". That is, searches haven't noticeably increased / changed from previous years.
- magikbum 14y agoI like how they are co-opting the idea of "hashtags" as being a Google + thing. With their this year in "Google+ Hashtags" is that even a thing?
- corporalagumbo 14y agoMy main thought watching the video: "Holt shit that is some good advertising." A slickly-produced, epic, emotional and humble tribute to the richness and absurdity of human life - all inconspicuously presented through a panorama of Google's entire product portfolio - tying the sweeping feelings stirred in you either consciously or subconsciously to everything Google...
- Centigonal 14y agoTrending airlines? O_o
- jezclaremurugan 14y agoand India's no. 1 search for people is Sunny Leone...
- majani 14y agoOne of the top searches in my country, Kenya, is 'how to abort.' What an eye-opener for a reportedly Christian country where abortion is illegal. http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#kenya http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#kenya
- witoldc 14y agoFor Poland, the biggest trending How-To question is; "how to remove Facebook" The top result is a Polish page that tells you how to delete your FB account for good, not just deactivate it.