{"id":29877,"date":"2011-12-15T18:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/google_reveals_zeitgeist_survey_of_top_web_searches_for_2011\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:27:56","slug":"google_reveals_zeitgeist_survey_of_top_web_searches_for_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29877","title":{"rendered":"Google reveals &#39;Zeitgeist&#39; survey of top British web searches for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s annual run-down of Britain\u2019s most popular and fastest rising searches always makes for a revealing list \u201d\u201c the internet search engine calls the study \u201cZeitgeist\u201d\u009d because it aims to capture the spirit of our age.<\/p>\n<p>This year the royal wedding was fastest-rising but, tellingly, it doesn\u2019t even make the top 10 most popular UK searches. That\u2019s dominated by functional queries for Facebook, eBay, YouTube, Hotmail and, oddly, Google itself. When it comes to individuals, the same is true: Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham and Emma Watson are most popular, untouched by the fastest-rising people such as the late American TV star Ryan Dunn or singers Adele and Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/8957040\/Google-reveals-Zeitgeist-survey-of-top-web-searches-for-2011.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s annual run-down of Britain\u2019s most popular and fastest rising searches always makes for a revealing list \u201d\u201c the internet search engine calls the study \u201cZeitgeist\u201d\u009d because it aims to capture the spirit of our age. This year the royal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29877\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,589,149,133,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}