Google—the most famous search engine on
Internet—is known for doing ground-breaking things. Before the beginning of
this New Year, the search engine has come up with a list Zeitgeist-2011 that
provides details on ‘How the world searched Internet’ in 2011. Google
has analyzed the billions of queries that were typed into the search engine over
the year to give a glimpse of 2011. It provides us with
a list of people who rose to popularity and what were the most searched terms,
this year.
Rebecaa Black tops the list of the fastest
rising personality on Internet in 2011 after her music video ‘Friday’ went
viral and received over 167 millions online hits in 2011. According to Google, searches for Rebecca Black and related searches like Rebecca
Black Friday jumped over 10,000
per cent between 2010 and 2011 and made the young pop singer ‘the fastest
rising search’ on Google in 2011.
Other rising personalities’ names include Ryan
Dunn–a stunt artist who died in a car accident, Adele–a singer whose album sold
over 2,08,000 copies in UK in the first week of its release, Justin Beiber–a
young singer and a few others.
In India, Anna Hazare, a social activist
who troubled the UPA government with his gandhian style movement against
corruption, has become the fastest rising Indian in the virtual world this year.
The search engine has prepared this list by comparing the popularity of the
personalities in 2011 to 2010.
Poonam Pandey is the second most searched
personality on Internet in India this year after Hazare. Pandey grabbed the
newspapers headlines after she promised to shed her clothes if Indian cricket
team would win the cricket world cup. Indian team won but she didn’t keep her
words. But her ‘daring’ promise made her a popular personality online. Others
who follow her on the list are Steve Jobs, Anushka Sharma, Salman Khan, Justin
Beiber, Kajal Agarwal, Katrina Kaif, Vijay Mallya and Aishwarya Rai.
Indian Premiere League and Cricket World
Cup was the top two most searched terms on the most popular news items. They
were followed by CBSE results. Shah Rukh Khan would have spent crores of rupees
in promoting his movie Ra. One but
the most searched movie on Internet was Bodyguard.
And, Ra. One was the second most
searched movie. Among general search terms, Facebook and You Tube grabbed the
first two spots.
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