Julian Price

Google Zeitgeist Top Web Searches - World Cup, Olympics, Oil Spill, Ash Cloud and Chatroulette?



Posted: Monday, January 03, 2011

by Julian Price
http://www.uk-freelance-content-writer.co.uk/

The pages of Google were probably the busiest places on earth again in 2010, as billions of fingers keyed in their searches for news events, sports, celebrities and movies, scandals and gossip and let’s not forget shopping.

I don’t know if you are like me but I always find it fascinating at the end of a year or at the beginning of a new one to check out Google Zeitgeist to discover which web searches were the most popular in a given year.

As my title suggests, some of the top global events of 2010, inevitably became some of the most searched for items on Google and other search engines. What is interesting is that these top searches were a mixture of amazing sporting spectacles, natural disasters and manmade disasters too.

The Soccer World Cup in South Africa, despite, some would say, a lack of on field quality in 2010, still remained the hottest topic of the summer months. A first ever World Cup Finals on African soil proved to be a huge commercial success. In December it was revealed that a first ever World Cup Finals would be held on Russian soil in the year 2018.

The winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010) also proved a hugely popular sports search on the internet.

2010 was also a year of devastating disasters, with nature’s power unleashed in the earthquake that ripped Haiti apart. A volcano in Iceland caused an altogether different kind of disaster for airlines and travellers stranded throughout Europe as a massive ash cloud drifted through the sky.

The awful oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico also demanded readers’ attention in 2010.

The Zeitgeist is also great for showing us what and who the fastest rising searches were during a year, and 2010 saw webcam conversation website “Chatroulette” as the fastest riser. Hot on its heels were I Pad, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Twitter and Facebook.

Searches for Netflix and YouTube videos were a couple of the fastest rises in entertainment along with Shakira, Lady Gaga and Kesha.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, swine flu and Michael Jackson were just a couple of the searches that had fallen the most.

Feel free to check out the Zeitgeist yourself, but be warned, you could get lost for hours in there!
Julian has diplomas in freelance journalism (with distinction), copywriting and proofreading. He is also a creative writer and poet who writes both professionally and for pleasure. Julian has written articles for an internet marketing company and although this medium is often restricted by topic, his writing still maintains a unique and often humourous style, with many of his articles achieving good results on search engines. He has found the discipline involved with this kind of work to be a great writing exercise and believes it enhances and improves other areas of his writing. Julian is becoming an established freelance writer and many of his articles here at searchwarp are a showcase of the variety and quality of his work.

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