US Elections, Beijing Olympics, Facebook, Heath Ledger are Google’s hottest keywords in 2008

2008 was full of events, with the US Presidential Elections, Beijing Olympics, Euro 2008, financial crisis and so many things. But what does Google tell us?

The US Elections was one of the most followed events this year, Sarah Palin was the fastest rising keyword on Google in 2008 worldwide, while Obama came 6th. However, in the USA, Obama was the fastest rising keyword, while Sarah Palin dominated Google’s news and images searches in the US.

Heath Ledger, the Australian actor who died earlier this year, was a hot topic on Google, ranking 5th among the fastest rising topics in 2008. His movies, Dark Knight, was the most searched movie trailer in the US.

In social networks, Facebook came first, followed by MySpace, hi5, orkut, and linkedin in the 5th position. The weird part is that the keyword “facebook login” was the 3rd fastest rising trend in 2008, why login?

It seems like the popularity of the boy band Jonas Brothers is rising, putting the band in the 10th position among Google’s fastest rising trends in 2008, and in the first position among concerts tickets in the US.

The most popular keyword in the United Arab Emirates was Dubai, the English term ranked 1st, while the Arabic came 5th, followed by UAE, ranking 2nd in English and 3rd in Arabic. YouTube is hot in the UAE, the English term ranked 9th among most popular trends, while the Arabic term made it to the list of fastest rising trends.

Hannah Montana and its main star Miley Cyrus were among the fastest rising topics this year in the UAE. Heath Ledger was a hot topic in the UAE, just like the rest of the world. Atlantis Dubai ranked 9th, that makes sense after the early buzz around the opening night. For some reason people in the UAE were searching for Bahrain Air, I’m not sure why.

UAE Trends:

source: Google Zeitgeist

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