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2002 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major
events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted
over the past year by Google users from around the world. Whether you are
tracking the global progression of the "Las Ketchup" craze or finding out
who really is the queen of the Internet, the 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist
enables you to look at the past year through the collective eyes of the
world on the Internet.
Track the course of the past 12 months on the timeline and graphs
plotting the most popular search terms as they occurred throughout 2002.
Check out the year's top gaining and declining search terms as well as the
most popular brands, music, movies and women on the web as seen by Google
users.
Zeitgeist
Explained
The term "zeitgeist" comes from the German "Zeit" meaning "time" and "Geist"
meaning "spirit". The term is defined in English by Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate® Dictionary as "the general intellectual, moral, and cultural
climate of an era." Google believes that this word and its definition
appropriate to describe the program it implemented to share global search
statistics and trends from the world's most popular search engine.
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2002 Year
in Review Timeline
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