Google Zeitgeist 2007

Google just released the 2007 year-end Zeitgeist. The service reveals emerging and declining trends in real time of searches conducted on the Google search engine. And I have never heard half of the words listed in the Zeitgeist.

Fastest Rising (Global)

1. iphone - I know this one. Some over-priced black shiny brick designed by company who's the CEO's salary is USD1. No cents.
   
2. badoo - No idea.
   
3. facebook - For pimply faced youth.
   
4. dailymotion - People need help from Google to pass their motion?
   
5. webkinz - Punk wannabe.
   
6. youtube - I go to this site to get my daily porn fix.
   
7. ebuddy - Go out, and make a real friends which you can physically touch. Sheesh.
   
8. second life - Reincarnated people searching for answers?
   
9. hi5 - Rappers.
   
10. club penguin - This shows that Linux is ready for the desktop! Perhaps they are searching for this.
    

Fastest Rising (US)

1. iphone - Can I have one?
   
2. webkinz - Punk.
   
3. tmz - WTF?
   
4. transformers - Why the sudden urge to learn about electrical things? I can tell you that transformers is all about the inductively coupled wires.
5. youtube - Ted Stevens probably is right when he said about the Internet and the tubes.
   
6. club penguin - See above.
   
7. myspace - My space is my property.  Don't need Google to tell you that.
   
8. heroes - Let me help. You guys are searching for Hayden Panettiere. Pervert.
   
9. facebook - Bookworm I know. This is new. Must find out.
   
10. anna nicole smith - She's dead. Get over it.
    

Fastest Falling (Global)

1. world cup - I presume this goes with number 3.
   
2. mozart - I listen to his music, so I won't make fun of this particular dead guy.
   
3. fifa - Don't worry, 2010 is just 2 years away.
   
4. rebelde - No idea.
   
5. kazaa - Hello, its almost 2008. Kazaa is so 1990s.
   
6. xanga - What's with all these fancy spelling?
   
7. webdetente - Gay alert!
   
8. sudoku - Game over. They found algorithm to solve the whole puzzle.
   
9. shakira - Serves you right, goat-voice.
   
10. mp3 - Aaa?