I hope you had a great holiday break and good start to the year 2006! Have you noticed that the year's most popular searches are big news? The media landscape is now unthinkable without Internet search engines, and the big search engines like Google and Yahoo! have become an important, real-time barometer of trends and crazes. So what where the most popular searches in 2005?Top News Searches on Google in 2005
Top Shopping Searches on Froogle in 2005
Apple's ipod ranks four times amongst the top ten shopping searches!
For more Google Zeitgeist for 2005, including some great graphs of search volumes over time on selected terms, visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2005.html. At Yahoo!, the top searches were slightly different:Top Searches on Yahoo! for 2005
Top Shopping Searches on Yahoo! in 2005
Top Yahoo! News Searches of 2005
You can get the full list of top 2005 searches on Yahoo! at http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2005/
Posted by Nancy Hackett at 2:03 AM GMT