Top Ten Googled words

Google released their top search words for 2011.  Here are the top ten:


10- iPad 2 (if you are 37+ years old and reading this blog, you have a 64% chance of having one)
9- Steve Jobs (genius)
8- TEPCO (Japan reactor that melted down)
7- Adele (musician)
6- iPhone 5 (have you heard of this phone that Apple has?)
5- Battlefield 3 (video game)
4- Casey Anthony (Florida mother accused of murdering her child)
3- Ryan Dunn (From Jackass who died in a car crash of all things)
2- Google+ (mostly searching for invites or digital migration steps from facebook or "is this another social network I have to learn? Crap."


And of course the number one most Googled term of 2011 as released by Google - 


1- Rebecca Black (had a viral hit video called "Friday") 


I am sure you can catch the irony of people using Google to discover information about Apple (a competitor of Google).


50% of this list are people.  For some reason this made me think of this line credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Popular Google suggestions for the Bible

When you type in Google the beginning of a question Google will automatically give you a drop down menu selection of common searches beginning with what you have typed. As such someone has created a program that will visually show these results when you type in two questions.

Below in the link, you can see what happens when you type into Google "The Bible is" and "The Bible is not".

Please note, the larger the word the more popular that statement is (so for instance the most popular search for either "the Bible is" or "the Bible is not" is "true".)

Interesting to say the least. It is a view of the collective 'group think' around the world that uses Google.

Feel free to try this out yourself with your own queries and statements.