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What's on your mind?

Mar 7, 04:47

I just stumbled across Google’s Zeitgeist page, which lists the most popular queries over the last month or so. Google’s official definition of Zeitgeist is as follows:

zeit·geist | Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-”gIst, ‘zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Here are the top ten queries for the week ending February 28, 2005:

  1. jay z
  2. oscars
  3. hilary swank
  4. academy awards
  5. halle berry
  6. btk
  7. weather channel
  8. christina milian
  9. project runway
  10. american idol

Interesting or sad? I don’t know.