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Apple iPhone tops 2007's Google Zeitgeist

by Parm Mann on 17 December 2007, 13:16

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Gadgets and girls as popular as ever

Google's annual Zeitgeist, a report that analyses billions of search queries, has been published and it comes as little surprise to see Apple's iPhone top the list of fastest rising search items.

Hugely popular websites Facebook and YouTube also made the list of global search items in third and sixth place respectively. In second place came badoo, a website which I must confess to having never heard of. Naturally, I Googled it...

Google's most popular news search of the year belonged to American Idol and was closely followed by celebrities Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton. Clearly too many young boys use Google. In entertainment, Heroes tops the list for TV shows and Transformers holds top spot for movies.

In terms of gadgets, Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox remained popular throughout the year with Sony's Playstation 3 lagging behind. HD-DVD proved to be more popular than Blu-Ray, in terms of search queries at least, and both formats have seen a steady increase throughout the year.

With much of the fanfare surrounding Apple's iPhone now behind us, it's anyones guess as to what may be the most searched for item in 2008. Share your thoughts on 2007's list and indeed your predictions for 2008 in the HEXUS forums.

Source: Google Zeitgeist

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Posted by Steve - Mon 17 Dec 2007 13:22
At least when you search for “iphone” from a PC, you can feel the keys of the keyboard being depressed.

Odd that they left such a key feature of interface design out of the iPhone.

A shameful amount of iHype surrounded this product.
Posted by kopite - Mon 17 Dec 2007 14:03
I have a number of issues with the Iphone.

the advertising is typical Apple. The bloke is so smug who is talking over it.

The fact that they charge crazy money for it on top of the contract is galling.

To me though the biggest problems is that Apple seem to think that the rest of the world are as backward as they are when it comes to mobile phones.

Not being able to do 3g is madness for a device thats so expensive.

The fact that you cant do MMS is daft as well.

One of the really daft things IMO though is that considering its being sold as a music device why can it not handle a2dp? Surely if you are pushing a device as a music phone then the ability to be able to to stereo over bluetooth is a pretty big thing?
Posted by TheAnimus - Mon 17 Dec 2007 14:27
Oh no, Shakira has slipped to number 9 on the less searched for list. Poor thing, still i'd give her 1.
Posted by TheAnimus - Mon 17 Dec 2007 14:29
kopite
The fact that you cant do MMS is daft as well.
Thankfully apple users seldem send or recive the types of pictures MMS is used for…. Its funny how I still keep one on my mobile i should of really deleted a long time ago! (the whole theres no film in this camera thing dosen't work with digital ones either!).