If anyone knows what we’re looking for, it’s Google. They see millions of searches each year and at the end of each year they publish their Zeitgeist to tell us about the most popular searches across a range of categories.
You can check out the full Zeitgeist 2012 or get a quick summary by watching the video below. It’s well worth watching.
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.