Two of Apple’s gadgets and the company’s late co-founder Steve Jobs have been rated as among this year’s hottest searches on Google.
The Google Zeitgeist report, published each year, is based on billions of searches on Google this year to establish the “fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011”.
The iPhone 5 claimed sixth place, Steve Jobs ninth and the iPad 2 tenth position in the top Google searches 2011.
It’s pretty impressive considering the iPhone 5 never materialised, that the desire for this Apple smartphone was so huge it still became one of the most-searched products on Google this year. In fact, some of you are no doubt still wondering what really happened to the iPhone 5 – although the iPhone 4S seems to be selling quite well!
In addition to the top 10 searches, Google revealed lists of Fastest Rising items in different categories. And in the Consumer Electronics group, the iPhone 4S came second, beaten to the winning spot by Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Other smartphones and the iPad 2 featured in this category also, with the HTC Sensation in seventh place and Samsung Nexus Prime (now known as Galaxy Nexus) in eighth place.
In the Google News grouping, the iPhone 4S also came second, and the iPhone 5 eighth.
Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs was the ninth most-searched term, and sixth in the Fastest Rising People category.
Google’s social network Google+ also featured highly in the Zeitgeist list, claiming second place. Google revealed it had “amassed a user base of more than 10 million people” in the first 3 weeks of the site’s release; and recently launched Google+ for business.
In terms of how the two Apple devices compare on a searched-for basis, Google’s data reveals that interest in the iPad 2 hits it maximum at the end of February, two weeks before the tablet was launched. The iPhone 5 reached its peak at the end of September, one week before the iPhone 4S was unveiled to the world.
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