Well, it’s not technically over yet - still a few more days to go. That hasn’t stopped Google analysing the year’s searching trends.
Google’s Zeitgeist for 2005 shows up some interesting trends. According to Google “It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires.”
So, what has it shown this year? Well, “The Force” has overpowered “The Dark Side”, Yoda defeats Skywalker, Middle Earth is in steady decline, but Hogwarts is on the up. Also, searches for Wikipedia has been steadily increasing all year.
The Nature listings sure summarized the catastrophies around the world in 2005. Lets hope 2006 does not repeat the performance. It was a catastrophic year.