Google just released its annual Zeitgeist video showing “how the world searched” in 2012. After 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages were conducted, here are the events, people and conflicts that dominated the news cycle over the last year.
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Stephen Saban
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Nine times more often, in fact. And sadly, there’s probably nine times more info to be found about his budget plan than there are photos of him shirtless. This crummy image seems to be the only one. We searched. (via Time)
Bridget Stahovic
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Thanks to several news report titles with the term, “completely wrong,” from when Romney said his 47% comments are “completely wrong,” you can now Google Image search that term, and it will return mostly pictures of Mitt Romney. Now THAT’S poetic justice.
James St. James
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Almost 20 years ago, AT&T had a series of commercials that told us to get ready for iPads, e-books, Netflix, Skype, GPS, supermarket self-checkout lanes, online college courses, online ticket sales, and Suri (among many, many other things). It seemed like a bunch of science fiction at the time, but almost EVERYTHING in those commercials has come to pass. So maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss those nutty Project Glass ads by Google.
