Harish Palaniappan's

Google Zeitgeist
Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google

Another interesting site of Google. Google very often tears open what we all thought as a saturated industry 'Search industry'.

The Google Zeitgeist is a website where google publishes the stats of its search engines, the top searches around the world on sports, news, women, men... in essence information on the major search crowd.

They have this stats all the time.. but publishing it and giving the public some insight into it could be useful and sometimes very useful for Ad companies and publicists wanting to know what is hot on the web around the globe.

Good I discovered 'Zeitgeist', accidentally browsing to things, as usual forgetting what i wanted to initially read about. ... and google zeitgeist is not new... its been there for sometime i think.. probably years.. he he.. another of my late discovery.

I would blame the word 'Zeitgeist' for its low popularity.. and one reason why as a surfer I learnt about this site so late.

Zeitgeist is a tough word... atleast for people of non-english countries like mine (India).
Google is quick to explain the word with a dictionary quote..

zeit·geist | Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

I would not call it late because I somehow strongly felt google zeitgeist has a long way to go to make the information provided on the site more interesting... because it looked like just boxes saying what are top 10 searches in that and this..

But, google answered that already.. every year they plan to make a presentation on what was hot around the world.. and this stuff for the year 2004 is here. Its a very nice presentation.. just similar to the "Yahoo -10 years -A netrospective" link that I posted about sometime back.

Appreciably, we should note that this kind of innovativeness is one important that is keeping the idea of searching the web, and the web itself HOT.