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.
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‘Hacktivists’ Bring Down MasterCard to Support WikiLeaks
Here’s a priceless update for you. A group of anonymous online hacker activists (hacktivists) have initiated what they call Operation: Payback, a call to action to shut down websites of companies that have pulled the plug on …
Coming to a TV Near You: The Royal Wedding in 3D?
Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. The mystery of who shot J.R. Ewing. And now, quite possibly, the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton can be added to seminal moments in television history — if it’s …
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed: AT&T Named Worst Service Provider
Many iPhone users could have told you this themselves. (via Techland)
iFever: Steve Jobs for TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year?
Between the arrival of the new iPhone 4 and the debut of the ingenious iPad, Apple exceeded its calendar of avant-garde expectations.
The United States of Autocomplete: How Google Sees America
If you were to type into Google the names of the 50U.S. states and allow the autocomplete search algorithm to generate your answers how would the map of America look?
WikiLeaks Strikes Back and Moves to Switzerland
WikiLeaks was left scrambling to keep its website alive after an American domain provider pulled the plug late Thursday forcing the whistleblowing website to create a new Swiss web address just six hours after Wikileaks.org was shutdown.
Hulu To Launch International Service
Hulu is going global. After launching its subscription-based streaming component Hulu Plus, the video-on-demand service will expand internationally. Head over to Techland for more details.
Student Googles Himself, Finds Out He’s Wanted for Murder
The good news is that he’s innocent. The bad news is that he’s wanted for murder.
Exclusive: Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Talks Politics and Privacy — “Of Course There Are Legitimate Secrets, But…”
In never-before-seen footage of a recent TIME interview with Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder and Person of the Year candidate discusses why information is so essential to good governance and how he sees his role at the …
Top Yahoo Searches of 2010: Bieber Has Nothing on Miley, but the Oil Spill Trumped Them All
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.
Is the Government About to Block Cell Phone Signals in Cars?
Talking or texting while driving can lead to accidents worthy of a bona-fide OMG. (Via Discovery News)