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What We Searched for in 2009
'Tis the season for Top 10 lists including Google Zeitgeist where Google collects its top search queries to create lists that best reflect the spirit of the year (sounds merry, doesn't it?). What made the lists: "As millions of fans said goodbye to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson led the list of our top 10 fastest rising queries across the globe," reports the Official Google Blog. People also watched the swine flu epidemic ("[schweinegrippe], [gripe porcina], [豬流感], [h1n1], [świńskiej grypy] and [sikainfluenssa] were heavily queried the world over"). Other fast risers: Lady Gaga, Windows 7 and New Moon. Pocket-lint notes that for the first time social networking services made the list: Facebook, "Spanish social networking site Tuenti close behind and Twitter sneaking in at fourth place." Yahoo and Bing also released their top 2009 searches today, with Michael Jackson topping both lists. "For Yahoo!, it marks the first time since 2005 that Britney Spears has been dethroned as the most popular search," notes Search Engine Land.
Bloggers Dig Into Tiger Woods Weirdness
The Tiger Woods story keeps getting stranger, and bloggers have all kinds of questions. X17 Online reports that Woods has retained an attorney and wonders whether his wife Elin Nordegren will get her own. Tiger's reputed mistress and cause of the fight, Rachel Uchitel, denied an affair but "[s]ources contradict Uchitel's account, however, saying she's claimed flings not only with Woods but with actor David Boreanaz, and that her mother has told friends her daughter has dated New York Yankee players Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez." The cops are trying to get a warrant, "allowing them to seize medical records from the hospital that treated Tiger Woods," says TMZ, "in an attempt to determine if the wounds Woods sustained are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence."
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