Proud to be Canadian...(usually)

February 18, 2009 22:59 by dana

Ok, I admit that I like statistics. Numbers are interesting to me. Take the number 4 for instance...ok, nevermind. What I really want to talk about is the Google Zeitgeist from 2008, especially as it relates to Canada. For the uninitiated, Google Zeitgeist is a collection of information that Google makes available regarding what is popular according to search trends. Shown below is a list of the top 10 most popular searches made by Canadians in 2008.

Most Popular

  1. facebook
  2. youtube
  3. lyrics
  4. weather
  5. games
  6. google
  7. hotmail
  8. yahoo
  9. map
  10. canada

Source: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/#top

Interesting, eh? I'm actually quite fearful of what this tells us about ourselves! Can it be that there are that many Canadians that still need to SEARCH for facebook? How about Google...there are a whole lot of people out there using Google to search for Google. Sigh... Some may find that depressing, I call it job security. :)


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