Google Zeitgeist
Category: The Web | 15 Comments | Posted 14:05You gotta love it. Usually very entertaining. And informative. I have it in my bookmarks. You can find it here.
Funny stuff in this week's Zeitgeist:
#5 declining query: Hurricane Fabian
#3 gaining query: Hurricane Isabel
Poor Americans 
Random funny stuff from August 2003 Zeitgeist:
#1 popular query in German was "Klimageräte" (air conditioning)
"Unusual queries" include:
learning to dribble in Soccer
sono stato in Austria (I've been to Austria)
BTW, 
Angelina Jolie was
#2 actress in France
#5 query in the UK
#2 query (!) in the Netherlands 
And I still find it weird how people enter things like
riaa, symantec, sony, easyjet or argos on Google
instead of adding .com and entering it in the browser address bar. 
lol, i actually have a bunch of visitors that put "www.vacuity.de" into google to search for me and then click on the link at google. THAT is surprising. one of the visitors does that several times a day!
When I enter a URL into my wonderful Google toolbar, I get taken to the site immediately.
yeah, though, what are "Favorites" for then? or the address-field of the browser? and i hardly ever use the google bar, though maybe those that check by regularly use the google bar, too.
LOL yeah theoretically you could remove the address bar when you have the Google bar. The only thing is that Google doesn't do auto-complete.
Posted by: Clarissa at September 18, 2003 10:09 PMnah, i don't like that google bar. it's annoying.
Posted by: Michelle at September 18, 2003 10:43 PMooh no it's wonderful! I couldn't live without it! (ok I could, but things are MUCH easier this way 
)
Yeah, though what's so cool about it? I only sometimes use it when I went to check stats, but I'd not want to see them on every page and not all the time. And the rest of the bar doesn't interest me.
Posted by: Michelle at September 18, 2003 11:12 PMEr, it's a search bar. Which is useful. Means I don't have to go to Google home page first and can do direct image or newsgroup searches.
And as Google links words to Dictionary.com, I also use it for that, and as a calculator (it's quicker than going into Start Program > Accessories )
You know what I just realised?
*five years later*
You start off calling the sponge Blobby and end up calling it Scrubby
Me all of a confused, me be.
© tho. In case anyone needed reminding. 
you can use the address bar of IE as a search bar also.
and calculater is right in front when i need it, cuz i put it there. just a click. 
Yeah but the address bar uses shitty MSN search. Well, mine uses Google, but only cuz I've got the Google toolbar
LOL @ calculator. I prefer Google
BML Me, I call him Scrubby both times, you just can't hear it so well the 1st time round. I can send you the wav file tho Besides, the Poptastic bottle says Scrubby too and I made that before I started the clip of course
LMAO - 
I like my google toolbar!
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#5 declining query: Hurricane Fabian
#3 gaining query: Hurricane Isabel
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Aaaah...
Ahem. Sorry.
PS.
Posted by: The BML at September 18, 2003 03:13 PM