Imagine the horror when you show up to your Halloween party dressed like everyone else. Google looked at the most popular searches to predict what the most popular costume will be.
Here at TIME, we just finished putting together our annual exhaustive compendium of this year in the news. In the same spirit, Google is giving a look behind the search curtain at the top queries from the past 12 months.
It’s been a big year news-wise–think Wikileaks, the rally to restore sanity, the Chilean miners– but according to Yahoo! we’re still just obsessed with celebrities, sports and reality television.
A joint study by academics in Germany and the U.S. sheds new — and disturbing — light on the power of Google.
While it might not be the most obvious way to celebrate your political party winning an election, research shows that victorious voters look at more online porn.
In an effort to keep its own eye on satellite searches, the People’s Republic is going toe-to-toe with the California-based tech giant.
That’s the best justification for trolling around with a metal detector we’ve ever heard.
After a bouncy-ball extravaganza yesterday, Google’s doodle today is more subdued, but still cool. (via Techland)
You may or may not have noticed that when you type in 2204355 into Google and hit the I’m Feeling Lucky button this inexplicably happens.
