God beaten by love and kisses (but still doing very well)
Google Zeitgeist record their search trends for 2007. “Who is God?” is the most asked who is type of question, but there were more searches for “What is love?” and “How to kiss?” in their respective categories. These are taken only form the US Google.com site, not from other Goggle sites around the world.
I have no idea what this says, since the categories are quite eclectic, except that it seems to me a bit sad that the most asked question of the year by people sitting (presumably alone) at computer screens is “What is love?”
Google appears also to be a strange resort for a game of tag with so many people asking “Who is it?” (5th in the who is listings). There also seem to have been quite a few people baffled by young people’s cultural trends with a surprising number asking “what is emo?” (Oh well, at least they’d heard of it!) Then there are the barking mad, asking “how to levitate?”. There seem to have been an awful lot of them too.
Even useless statistics are fascinating.