What Were You Searching in 2011?

What did the world want to know in 2011?

Every year Google lets us know what the world has been searching to find. They publish the most common search terms in their annual zeitgeist.

The top ten things we wanted to know about globally, according to Google, are as follows:

1. Rebecca Black
2. Google+
3. Ryan Dunn
4. Casey Anthony
5. Battlefield 3
6. iPhone 5
7. Adele
8. (Fukushima I Plant)
9. Steve Jobs
10. iPad2

You can visit the zeitgeist page to see results broken down by various regions.

This year Google has also created a video to give us an overview of the year in searches. Watch the video above to see what we wanted to know this year.



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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He previously worked in radio for about 25 years but these days he spends his time at Compassion Australia, working towards releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.

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