Google has released its 11th annual Zeitgeist lists of the most popular and fastest rising search terms. They're a lot of fun to look through, and some of the results are pretty surprising. You're going to sh*t when you see what the overall fastest rising search term for 2011 was. Hint? Tomorrow.
For the games list, the results aren't as surprising. At the top of the list you'll find "Black Ops," and "Call of Duty" directly follows. The rest of the list, aside from "Super Mario" are as you'd expect. Be sure to check out the interactive search charts for this list and others. Google lets you dig freely into their data, and it's all presented very nicely.
Special note should be taken of #7, "Battlefield 3," as it also made the big list as it was #5 in the top ten fastest rising search terms overall on the most popular search engine on Earth. Google has dedicated a page to the game and its search data. They say that BF3 searches jumped up 1,773 percent over last year, and that its search peaks actually beat out those of its competitor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
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3:00 PM on 12.15.2011 | 
Pretty interesting stuff though, I'm happy Google lets us access it.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155516/butters-speech
Some of the other top picks are actually surprising though. I mean, Ryan Dunn? The fuck?
Well, whatever. I could go on and on about my thoughts on the list, but in the interest of trying not to sound like a complete snob (or whatever term people use these days), I'll pass.
I can't watch the video in Canada :(
Like baby choo choo said, with all the important things that happened this year reading that just furthers my lack of faith in humanity.
Seriously people, there are far more important things in life than celebrities.
Well, I'm not sure if Google is allowed to disclose searches related to porn.
Porn: The only thing in life more important than celebrities.
Yeah, I guess not...I completely forgot about that. Surely that is the highest searched content.