Google's recently released end-of-year Zeitgeist is a record of their most commonly entered search strings over 2005. Its an interesting read that gives perspective on what the internet accessing segment of society wants to know about and when they want to know it. Much of the Zeitgeist is somewhat of a no-brainer, searches for phrases like Katrina and tsunami surged out of relative obscurity during intense news coverage, but other nuances like Janet jackson's #1 ranking for overall news inquires are more perplexing. One would think the fallout from her wardrobe malfunction should have subsided in 2004...

Google 2005 Zeitgeist
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