Ireland’s Zeitgeist 2010 – the spirit of 2010 through search queries

About this time every year Google publish Zeitgeist; a collection of data and visualisations that help capture the spirit of the year gone by based on the aggregation of billions of search queries.

Ireland’s results focus largely around online communication, and social networks. An increase in demand for online media consumption is also witnessed with searches for both RT?’s and TV3’s playback services in the top 10 fastest rising search queries in Ireland.

“The Irish still love to talk and share online as this year’s results show, with social networking sites, email and randomly meeting people online growing in popularity. An increase of media consumption online can be seen with both the RTE and TV3 playback service ranking highly in Ireland’s fastest rising searches.”

Below are Zeitgeist 2010 lists generated from Google Search Ireland query data.

Ireland fastest rising

chatroulette

gmail

hotmail

glee

fb

tv3 player

world cup 2010

gerry ryan

rte player

ryanair.ie

Ireland most popular

facebook

youtube

hotmail

bebo

games

google

bbc

gmail

mail

news

Ireland music fastest rising

cee lo green

eminem recovery

eurovision 2010

professor green

v festival 2010

glee

niamh kavanagh

oxegen 2010

fireflies lyrics

justin bieber

Ireland sports fastest rising

fifa 11

galway races 2010

ryder cup update

grand national 2010

vancouver 2010

wimbledon 2010

aviva stadium

winter olympics

world cup 2010

blackpool fc

Ireland entertainment fastest rising

chatroulette

big brother 2010

glee

justin bieber

tv3 player

4od

rte player

odeon

iron man 2

itv player

Ireland people fastest rising

gerry ryan

justin bieber

wayne rooney

jedward

katy perry

michael buble

kim kardashian

cheryl cole

paolo nutini

miley cyrus