Google reveals the hottest web topics since the Millennium

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Tuesday 01 December 2009   |  Comment  |  

With only one month to go until the end of the “noughties”, Google has released a list of the UK’s most searched terms of 2009, along with a glance back at the hottest trends since the millennium.

This year, Googlers have mostly been preoccupied with celebrities, bargains and swine flu with Facebook, eBay and Spotify also featuring high in the year’s fastest rising searches. Keen to find a cheap deal during the recession holiday offers proved a popular topic too.

The top searches 2009 list was as follows:

  1. facebook
  2. bbc
  3. youtube
  4. hotmail
  5. games
  6. ebay
  7. news
  8. google
  9. yahoo
  10. bebo

 

With the biggest news stories looking like this:

  1. swine flu
  2. susan boyle
  3. jade goody
  4. robert pattison
  5. rihanna
  6. michael jackson
  7. google maps
  8. twitter
  9. stephen gately
  10. iran

 

Meanwhile, the fastest rising search queries in 2009 shaped up to include:

  1. facebook login
  2. jogos
  3. ebay uk
  4. yahoo mail
  5. hotmail
  6. bbc iplayer
  7. hi5
  8. stephen gately
  9. bing
  10. spotify

 

Look back at the hottest topics searched in Google since 2001 the most popular subjects threw up a real mixed bag of words:

  • 2001: notradamus
  • 2002: spiderman
  • 2003: prince charles
  • 2004: big brother
  • 2005: james blunt
  • 2006: steve irwin
  • 2007: iphone
  • 2008: iplayer
  • 2009: stephen gately

Speaking on the findings, Google spokesperson Anthony House, commented: “Britons had mixed feelings as they headed online this year to search for their favourite online tools, to learn about celebrities new and old, and to find a good bargain. People searched about new sensations like Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle, but they also turned to the web to learn about the deaths of Stephen Gately, Jade Goody and Michael Jackson.”

If you’re interested in finding out more about search trends anyone is free to access Google Insights for Search.

 

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