Google Announces 2007 End-of-Year's most popular and the fastest-rising global search terms

Today, Google announced its 2007 End-of-Year Zeitgeist. This year's Zeitgeist reflects both the most popular and the fastest-rising global search terms that people have typed into Google.com

Fast Gainers by Quarter (U.S.)

Fastest Rising (global)

1. iphone
2. badoo
3. facebook
4. dailymotion
5. webkinz
6. youtube
7. ebuddy
8. second life
9. hi5
10. club penguin

Fastest Rising (U.S.)

1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith

Fastest Falling (global)

1. world cup*
2. mozart
3. fifa
4. rebelde*
5. kazaa
6. xanga
7. webdetente
8. sudoku
9. shakira
10. mp3

*featured in Google Zeitgeist 2006 fastest-rising list

Methodology

"In compiling the 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist, we studied the aggregation of billions of search queries people conducted on Google. We should note that no individual searcher's information was made available to us. Except where noted, all of these search terms are most popular for Google.com in the U.S." as per the Google Zeitgeist released.

See the report of top search queries for the year 2007 by AOL, Yahoo and Ask.com.