We have now reached that time of the year when the “bests” of 2007 are to be announced. From the best films to the best tracks of 2007, it’s the final evaluation of whether you or your work has been able to make a mark for itself in the year or it’s just been another run-on-the-mill affair. Well amongst all this, how could Google be left behind! The yearly “Year-End Google Zeitgeist” top ten list is no big deal, Google has being doing that since quite some time now, so what’s special this time around?
Well, for the very first time, the internet giant has released its first ever annual Google Zeitgeist report for India, which will include the fastest rising and highest volume search terms that users from India have been submitting to Google, in 2007.
The most popular and fast-rising search queries submitted to Google by Indian users is the criteria considered whilst deciding on the Google Zeitgeist list.
Terms that grew tremendously in 2007- the explosive queries, the topics that everyone was fixated at were taken into consideration. Also a proportionately higher score was given to searches with more traffic increase. Google India also computed the most popular queries in 2007 by volume. These category based lists given below on Bollywood celebrities, movies, holiday destinations etc. are the absolute most frequent searches in those categories.
2007 Zeitgeist list for India (Fast- Rising Search Queries in 2007)
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01. Orkut
02. YouTube
03. Gmail
04. Map
05. Google
06. Indian Railways
07. Yahoo Mail
08. Technology
09. Yahoo
10. Zapak
Category Lists
Top 10 Bollywood Celebrities
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01. Aishwariya Rai
02. Salman Khan
03. Hrithik Roshan
04. Katrina Kaif
05. Shahrukh Khan
06. Mallika Sherawat
07. Priyanka Chopra
08. Kareena Kapoor
09. Rani Mukherjee
10. Deepika Padukone
Top 10 Movies
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01. Spiderman
02. Sivaji
03. Dhoom 2
04. Om Shanti Om
05. Chak De India
06. Saawariya
07. Harry Potter
08. Ghost Rider
09. Bhool Bhulaiya
10. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Top 10 Places of Interest
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01. Kerala
02. Singapore
03. Goa
04. Australia
05. London
06. Dubai
07. Rajasthan
08. Jaipur
09. Kashmir
10. Ooty
Top 10 political leaders
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01. Mahatma Gandhi
02. Abdul Kalam
03. Sonia Gandhi
04. Indira Gandhi
05. Rabindranath Tagore
06. Pratibha Patil
07. Subhash Chandra Bose
08. Rahul Gandhi
09. Sarojini Naidu
10. Mayawati
Top 10 Sportstars
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01. Sania Mirza
02. Maria Sharapova
03. Sachin Tendulkar
04. John Cena
05. David Beckham
06. Cristiano Ronaldo
07. Rahul Dravid
08. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
09. Sourav Ganguly
10. Anna Kournikova
Paris Hilton, Borat and Bebo website were amongst the Top 2006 Google Search Terms List.