tag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk2011-12-19T10:44:07+00:00Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20111215_zeitgeist.html2011-12-15T06:00:00Z2011-12-15T06:00:00Z<h3>Royal Wedding, Adele and Groupon top this year’s Google Zeitgeist</h3><p><strong>UK, Thursday 15th December 2011</strong></p> <ul> <li>Royal Wedding is the fastest rising search of the year</li> <li>Kim Kardashian is the top celebrity</li> <li>Breaking Dawn is the fastest rising movie</li> <li>X Factor is the fastest rising TV show of 2011</li> <li>AV – the Alternative Vote system – tops the list of “what is…” queries</li> </ul> <p>Today, Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, offering a unique perspective on this year’s major events and hottest trends based on internet searches conducted in the UK in 2011. The Royal Wedding eclipsed everything as 2011’s fastest rising search query while the nation’s princess Kate Middleton featured in the top ten fastest rising people.</p> <p><strong>Music/film/TV</strong></p> <p>As pop princess Adele shot to superstardom on the music scene, she also topped the list of fastest rising people searches, second only to the late Jackass star Ryan Dunn. Teen flick Breaking Dawn topped the fastest rising movies list, leaving Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in its shadow. And, despite the departure of Simon Cowell, X Factor is in the top position as the fastest rising TV programme.</p> <p><strong>Celebs</strong></p> <p>Fresh from his notorious stint as MC of the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais was the only male to break into the top ten celeb list. It wasn’t only the Royal Wedding that got people searching either; US reality star Kim Kardashian’s 72 day marriage to Kris Humphries made her the most searched celebrity of 2011 in the UK.</p> <p><strong>…and more serious pursuits!</strong></p> <p>Serious searches topped the “what is” and “how to” query lists, with British searchers keen to learn “what is AV” as they researched their choices in the alternative vote referendum, and “how to revise” to help them through the exam season.</p> <p><strong>Fastest rising searches in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Royal wedding </li> <li>iPhone 5 </li> <li>Fifa 12 </li> <li>Groupon </li> <li>iPad 2 </li> <li>Ryan Dunn </li> <li>Adele </li> <li>Minecraft </li> <li>Rebecca Black </li> <li>Ed Sheeran </li> </ol> <p><strong>Fastest rising people in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Ryan Dunn </li> <li>Adele </li> <li>Rebecca Black </li> <li>Ed Sheeran </li> <li>Amy Winehouse </li> <li>Charlie Sheen </li> <li>Steve Jobs </li> <li>Kate Middleton </li> <li>Nicki Minaj </li> <li>Darren Criss </li> </ol> <p><strong>How to (top searches for ‘How to’ in 2011)</strong></p> <ol> <li>How to revise </li> <li>How to snog </li> <li>How to reference </li> <li>How to wallpaper </li> <li>How to draw </li> <li>How to sleep </li> <li>How to flirt </li> <li>How to geek </li> <li>How to pronounce </li> <li>How to shuffle </li> </ol> <p><strong>What is (top searches for ‘What is’ in 2011)</strong></p> <ol> <li>What is AV </li> <li>What is scampi </li> <li>What are truffles </li> <li>What are piles </li> <li>What is 4d </li> <li>What are cookies </li> <li>What is copyright </li> <li>What is zumba </li> <li>What is icloud </li> <li>What is probate </li> </ol> <p><strong>Fastest rising movies in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Breaking Dawn </li> <li>Final destination 5 </li> <li>Mean girls 2 </li> <li>True grit </li> <li>Conan the barbarian </li> <li>Scream 4 </li> <li>The Inbetweeners </li> <li>Little fockers </li> <li>Transformers 3 </li> <li>Unstoppable </li> </ol> <p><strong>Fastest rising sports terms in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Haye vs Klitschko </li> <li>Olympic tickets 2012 </li> <li>Arsenal transfer </li> <li>Six Nations 2011 </li> <li>Wimbledon 2011 </li> <li>Grand National 2011 </li> <li>Wrestlemania 27 </li> <li>Copa America 2011 </li> <li>Randy Savage </li> <li>Dan Wheldon </li> </ol> <p><strong>Top Food &amp; Drink</strong></p> <ol> <li>Asda </li> <li>Recipes </li> <li>Tesco </li> <li>Sainsburys </li> <li>Pizza </li> <li>Chicken </li> <li>Chocolate </li> <li>Dominos </li> <li>Morrisons </li> <li>Argos </li> </ol> <p><strong>Top Travel Destinations</strong></p> <ol <li>Las Vegas </li> <li>New York </li> <li>Disneyland Paris </li> <li>Jamaica </li> <li>Orlando </li> <li>Barbados </li> <li>Hawaii </li> <li>Caribbean </li> <li>Florida </li> <li>Cuba </ol> <p><strong>Top UK searches in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Facebook </li> <li>YouTube </li> <li>Hotmail </li> <li>Ebay </li> <li>Google </li> <li>BBC </li> <li>Amazon </li> <li>Argos </li> <li>Yahoo </li> <li>Tesco </li> </ol> <p><strong>News Top 10 (top searches on <a href="http://news.google.co.uk/">news.google.co.uk</a>)</strong></p> <ol> <li>BBC News </li> <li>Arsenal </li> <li>Facebook </li> <li>YouTube </li> <li>Cheryl Cole </li> <li>iPhone 5 </li> <li>Liverpool </li> <li>Kate Middleton </li> <li>Manchester United </li> <li>Justin Bieber </li> </ol> <p><strong>Fastest rising football searches in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Anzhi Makhachkala </li> <li>Arsenal transfer </li> <li>Liverpool rumours </li> <li>Joey Barton twitter </li> <li>Sky Sports transfer </li> <li>Fifa ultimate team </li> <li>Eric Abidal </li> <li>Copa america 2011 </li> <li>Billy Sharp </li> <li>Demba Ba </li> </ol> <p><strong>Top celebrities in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>Kim Kardashian </li> <li>Victoria Beckham </li> <li>Emma Watson </li> <li>Scarlett Johansson </li> <li>Jennifer Aniston </li> <li>Britney Spears </li> <li>Megan Fox </li> <li>Ricky Gervais </li> <li>Jessica Jane </li> <li>Angelina Jolie </li> </ol> <p><strong>Fastest rising TV programme in 2011</strong></p> <ol> <li>X Factor 2011 </li> <li>Apprentice 2011 </li> <li>X Factor usa </li> <li>NCIS season 9 </li> <li>House season 8 </li> <li>Glee season 3 </li> <li>Thundercats 2011 </li> <li>Big Brother 13 </li> <li>Supernatural season 7 </li> <li>Smallville season 10 </li> </ol> <p><strong>Top tickets</strong></p> <ol> <li>Train tickets </li> <li>Cheap tickets </li> <li>2012 tickets </li> <li>Theatre tickets </li> <li>Ticketmaster </li> <li>BBC tickets </li> <li>Concert tickets </li> <li>O2 </li> <li>Liverpool tickets </li> <li>Leeds tickets </li> </ol> <p><strong>Bargain hunting (top cheap searches 2011)</strong></p> <ol> <li>Cheap flights </li> <li>Cheap holidays </li> <li>Cheap hotels </li> <li>Cheap tickets </li> <li>Cheap insurance </li> <li>Cheap cars </li> <li>Cheap breaks </li> <li>Cheap shoes </li> <li>Cheap dresses </li> <li>Cheap clothes </li> </ol></li><h3>About Google Inc.</h3> <p>Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.google.com/">www.google.com</a>.</p><h3>Contact</h3> <p>Name: Anoek Eckhardt<br />Telephone number: 0207 881 7688<br />Email address: <a href="mailto:anoek@google.com">anoek@google.com</a></p><h3>Zeitgeist Explained</h3> <p>Google reveals the internet “Zeitgeist” (German for “the spirit of the times”) through an exploration of the billions of search queries we receive each year. In addition to the Year-end Zeitgeist, which highlights the top trends of 2011, we also have several tools that give insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. Google Zeitgeist tools can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur over time.</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20111107_googlepluspageannouncement.html2011-11-07T00:00:00Z2011-11-07T00:00:00Z<p><strong>7 November 2011 –</strong> Over on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-with-all-things.html">Official Google Blog</a> we just announced Google+ Pages, to help businesses and brands connect with customers.</p> <p>Google UK already has its own page on Google+ – <a href="https://plus.google.com/103583604759580854844/posts">add us to your circles</a>!</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20110930_googlenews.html2011-09-30T00:00:00Z2011-09-30T00:00:00Z<p><strong>London, 30 September 2011 –</strong> Google today launched its revamp of the Google News UK site. The new site includes Editors’ Picks, a feature enabling publishers to highlight special content within Google News; and several new features for users, enabling greater personalization of the site.</p> <p>Editors’ Picks is a new section of the Google News homepage, displaying original content that publishers have selected as highlights from their publications. Publishers can select long-form investigative features, photo slideshows, interactive maps, charts or other content to engage readers of online news. The new section gives these publishers a place to call out journalism beyond the day’s top stories.</p> <p>“We’ve been working with partners for some time now to create innovative new ways for them to engage readers of news online,” said Madhav Chinnappa, Google’s Head of News Partnerships in Europe. “Editors’ Picks gives publishers a place to bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism; promoting long-form stories and experimenting with new formats.”</p> <p>Editors Picks is available on Google News UK immediately. Thus far, The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News, Channel 4 News, Metro, The Daily Mirror, and The Independent already have content available, and the product is available for publishers of all stripes to <a href="http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/request.py?contact_type=site_update">sign up</a>.</p> <p>Partner quotes:</p> <p>Marcus Warren, Editor, Telegraph.co.uk, said: “Editor’s Picks is a great new outlet for the best of our journalism. We are pleased to showcase what we do in this exciting new way.”</p> <p>Vicky Taylor, Commissioning Editor New Media, News and Current Affairs, Channel 4, said: “Promoting Channel 4 News on the Google News page opens up our varied content to a wider audience who may not have come across it otherwise.”</p> <p>Jamie Walters, Executive Director of Digital at Metro said: “We are delighted to be working with Google on this project and are looking forward to making our most interesting content more discoverable for Google News users. Google News is currently a great place to find the latest trending stories and this new feature will enable publishers to highlight content that may not be breaking news, but is hugely engaging nonetheless. It will be good for Google News, good for Metro but most importantly good for the user.”</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20110928_pressrelease.html2011-09-28T00:00:00Z2011-09-28T00:00:00Z<p><strong>London, 28 Sept 2011 –</strong> Google has signed a lease for a seven-floor building in East London, the first step in its commitment to support the Tech City start-up community.</p> <p>Google plans to open up the space to other organisations that support technology entrepreneurs, working together to provide a launchpad for new London-based start-ups and developers. This is the first initiative of its kind for Google anywhere in the world.</p> <p>Securing a lease is the first stage in making Google’s commitment to Tech City a reality. The building, at <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=EC2A+4BX&amp;gl=uk&amp;t=m&amp;z=16&amp;vpsrc=0">4-5 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4BX</a>, will now undergo a full refurbishment before being ready to open in 2012.</p> <p>In addition to providing space for other organisations that work with start-ups, the building will host a range of activities, such as speaker series, hackathons, training workshops and product demonstrations for engineers who could benefit from Google’s knowledge of building large scale online services.</p> <p>This is an entirely new initiative, and Google UK’s existing operations will remain in their current offices in central London.</p> <p>The lease runs until at least 2022.</p> <p>David Singleton, Engineering Director, Google UK said:</p> <p>“We announced our involvement in the Tech City project last year, and we’ve been working hard to make this vision a reality. Finding a suitable building is the first major step, and we hope to announce more details about the organisations we’ll work with and how they will use the space in the coming months. East London is already home to hundreds of innovative British start-ups, and has huge potential for economic growth and new jobs over the coming years.”</p> <p>Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO of the Tech City Investment Organisation, said:</p> <p>“Google is a terrific example of a major technology business that understands the importance of nurturing as well as benefiting from the communities where they operate. This investment will pay dividends for them as well as contributing to the long-term success of the Tech City, and we are delighted to welcome them to the area.”</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20110620_britishlibrary.html2011-06-20T00:00:00Z2011-06-20T00:00:00Z<h3>Major project to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery</h3><p><strong>London, 20 June 2011 –</strong> The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library’s commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone who wants to do research.</p> <p>Selected by the British Library and digitised by Google, both organisations will work in partnership over the coming years to deliver this content free through Google Books (<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/">books.google.co.uk</a>) and the British Library’s website (<a href="http://www.bl.uk/" rel="nofollow">www.bl.uk</a>). Google will cover all digitisation costs.</p> <p>This project will digitise a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870, the period that saw the French and Industrial Revolutions, The Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War, the invention of rail travel and of the telegraph, the beginning of UK income tax, and the end of slavery. It will include material in a variety of major European languages, and will focus on books that are not yet freely available in digital form online.</p> <p>The first works to be digitised will range from feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), to the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775).</p> <p>Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library’s website and stored in perpetuity within the Library’s digital archive.</p> <p>Researchers, students and other users of the Library will be able to view historical items from anywhere in the world as well as copy, share and manipulate text for non-commercial purposes.</p> <p>Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library said: “In the nineteenth century it was an ambition of our predecessors to give everybody access to as much of the world’s information as possible, to ensure that knowledge was not restricted to those who could afford private libraries. The way of doing it then was to buy books from the entire world and to make them available in Reading Rooms.”</p> <p>Dame Lynne continued: “We are delighted to be partnering with Google on this project and through this partnership believe that we are building on this proud tradition of giving access to anyone, anywhere and at any time. Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections coupled with Google’s know-how will enable us to achieve this aim.”</p> <p>Peter Barron, Director of External Relations, Google, said: “What’s powerful about the technology available to us today isn’t just its ability to preserve history and culture for posterity, but also its ability to bring it to life in new ways. This public domain material is an important part of the world’s heritage and we’re proud to be working with the British Library to open it up to millions of people in the UK and abroad.”</p> <p>Professor Colin Jones, President of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London commented: “There is no doubt that the digitisation of this unique material will greatly benefit the research process. Academics are increasingly using new technologies at their disposal to search for innovative ways of investigating historical material to enable us to probe new questions and find alternative patterns of investigation. Digitisation gives us the freedom to not only do this quickly and remotely, but also enhances the quality and depth of the original.”</p> <p>Examples of the items that will be digitised include:</p> <ul> <li><em>An address to the people, on the present relative situations of England and France</em>, Robert Fellowes (1799) – pamphlet addressed to the British public commenting on the political situations in Britain and France</li> <li><em>Les droits de la femme. A la reine,</em> [The Rights of Women. To the Queen] Olympe de Gouges (1791) – remarkable pamphlet that explores Queen Marie-Antoinette as both subject and object</li> <li><em>Proyecto de navegacion submarina</em>, Narciso Monturiol [A Scheme for Underwater Seafaring: the Ichthyneus or Fish-Boat] (1858) – Monturiol was the inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine and this book describes his invention</li> <li><em>De Natuurlyke Historie van den Hippopotamus of het Rivierpaard</em>, George Louis Leclerc (1775), [The Natural History of the Hippopotamus, or River Horse] – Translated from a French original but with additional material, including an account of the stuffed Hippopotamus in the Prince of Orange’s cabinet of curiosities.</li> </ul> <p>This partnership demonstrates the Library’s further commitment to working with the private sector to digitise parts of its collections. Recently, the Library announced a partnership with brightsolid to digitise up to 40 million pages of its newspaper collections and previously the Library partnered with Microsoft to digitise 65,000 19th century books, some of which are now available as an App on Apple’s iPad.</p> <p>It is also planned to make the works available via Europeana (<a href="http://www.europeana.eu/" rel="nofollow">www.europeana.eu</a>), the European Digital Library.</p> <p>Google has partnered with over 40 libraries around the world.</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20101220_wifi.html2010-12-20T00:00:00Z2010-12-20T00:00:00Z<p>We are profoundly sorry for mistakenly collecting payload data in the UK from unencrypted wireless networks. Since we announced our mistake in May we have cooperated closely with the ICO and worked to improve our internal controls. As we have said before, we did not want this data, have never used any of it in our products or services, and have sought to delete it as quickly as possible.</p> <p>We can confirm that the UK data has now been deleted, and that this has been independently certified.</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20101213_youtube.html2010-12-13T00:00:00Z2010-12-13T00:00:00Z<ul> <li>‘Gap Yah’ named Homegrown Comedy Hit of the Year</li> <li>Cher Lloyd audition most viewed X-Factor clip</li> <li>Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ most watched video of 2010</li> </ul> <p><strong>LONDON, 13 December 2010 –</strong> ‘Gap Yah’ – a satirical sketch which parodies the student gap year has been named as the biggest homegrown comedy hit of 2010 on YouTube in their annual rundown of the most popular videos of the year. Cher Lloyds X factor Audition was the most viewed talent show clip in Britain whilst Justin Beiber’s promotional video for the single ‘Baby’ was the single most viewed clip in the UK in 2010.</p> <p>This year, more than 13 million hours of video – approximately 1,500 years worth of viewing – were uploaded to YouTube and more than 700 billion videos were viewed via the site. YouTube’s official Year-End 2010 Lists released today; highlight the YouTube videos that have proved most popular with UK viewers over the last twelve months.</p> <p>“More than ever in 2010 YouTube was a hub of creativity, a hive of hilarity and the place for people to share their passions and entertain themselves online,” said Anna Bateson, Director of Marketing, YouTube UK. “This year’s top videos lists give us a glimpse at the tremendous growth YouTube has experienced as a company and as an online community in 2010.”</p> <p>Britain’s top comedy videos of 2010 (based on UK views)</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU">Gap Yah</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IeASZZf1c"> Annoying Orange Saw</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_qGMfbtAk"> Annoying Orange Wazzup</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU">Being a Dickhead’s Cool</a></li> <li>Fascinating Aida – Cheap Flights</li> </ol> <p>Most Viewed X Factor/Britain’s Got Talent Videos of 2010 (UK views only)</p> <ol> <li>Cher Lloyd’s X Factor Audition (Full Version) – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Gamu Nhengu’s X Factor Audition – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Tobias Mead – Britain’s Got Talent 2010 – Auditions Week 1</li> <li>Ablisa’s X Factor Audition (Full Version) – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Cher Lloyd’s X Factor boot camp challenge (Full Version) – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Cher Lloyd This Morning Interview! The X Factor 2010 Audition Keri Hilson Turn My Swag On Soulja Boy</li> <li>Twist and Pulse – Britain’s Got Talent 2010 – Auditions Week 5</li> <li>Matt Cardle sings Just The Way You Are – The X Factor Live show 2 – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Cher LLoyd Liar, Fraud &amp; Unoriginal</li> <li>Spellbound – Britain’s Got Talent 2010 – Auditions Week 2</li> </ol> <p>Most Viewed Videos in the UK</p> <ol> <li>Justin Bieber’s “Baby” was the Most Viewed video in the UK in 2010. Is it his hair? Is it that babyface? Who cares: he’s huge on YouTube.</li> <li>Eminem is officially rehabilitated, with “Love The Way You Lie”</li> <li>Eminem, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s">Not Afraid</a>” was also huge on YouTube in the UK.</li> <li>B.o.B gave Justin Bieber some competition for Rookie of The Year 2010, with “Airplanes” putting in a powerful show on the Most Viewed list.</li> <li>Rihanna Rude Boy</li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ICZlm5v6A">Katy Perry – ft snoop dogg</a></li> <li>Cher Lloyd’s X Factor Audition (Full Version) – itv.com/xfactor</li> <li>Travie McCoy: Billionaire ft. Bruno Mars</li> <li>Jason Derulo – Ridin’ Solo (Official Video in HD)</li> <li>Katy B led the local charge up the YouTube charts in 2010, with “Katy On A Mission”</li> </ol><h3>Notes to Editors:</h3> <p>All UK viewing figures based on YouTube UK internal data.</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20101209_zeitgeist.html2010-12-09T00:00:00Z2010-12-09T00:00:00Z<h3>A Year in Search – Google announces top UK searches of 2010</h3><ul> <li>Live chat site Chatroulette is the fastest rising search of the year</li> <li>Take That is the year’s hottest ticket</li> <li>Election tops news searches, rail strikes also rank highly</li> <li>Cheryl Cole is top divorce</li> <li>Lists include “I love”, “I hate” and “I want”</li> </ul> <p><strong>London, Thursday 9th December –</strong> Today, Google announced its annual Zeitgeist top search lists for the UK, a look at 2010 through the collective eyes of the United Kingdom on the web. The 2010 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted in the UK this year.</p> <h3>Fastest rising searches of 2010</h3> <ol> <li>Chatroulette</li> <li>Formspring</li> <li>Hotmail Sign in</li> <li>iPad</li> <li>Justin Bieber</li> <li>World Cup 2010</li> <li>FB</li> <li>Santander</li> <li>Youtube</li> <li>Metcheck</li> </ol> <h3>Top news and current events</h3> <ol> <li>Election 2010</li> <li>Register to vote</li> <li>David Cameron</li> <li>Rail strike</li> <li>Daily mail showbiz</li> <li>Liberal democrat</li> <li>Elections results</li> <li>Labour party</li> <li>Conservative party</li> <li>Alex Jones</li> </ol> <h3>Fastest rising people</h3> <ol> <li>kristian digby</li> <li>justin bieber</li> <li>nicki minaj</li> <li>ellie goulding</li> <li>alexander mcqueen</li> <li>kesha</li> <li>miranda kerr</li> <li>kim kardashian</li> <li>katy perry</li> <li>enrique iglesias</li> </ol> <h3>Top divorces</h3> <ol> <li>cheryl cole divorce</li> <li>benny hinn divorce</li> <li>tiger woods divorce</li> <li>eva longoria divorce</li> <li>susanna reid divorce</li> <li>carol kirkwood divorce</li> <li>bam margera divorce</li> <li>claudia winkleman divorce</li> <li>avril lavigne divorce</li> <li>hulk hogan divorce</li> </ol> <h3>Top tickets</h3> <ol> <li>take that tickets</li> <li>lion king tickets</li> <li>wimbledon tickets</li> <li>michael buble tickets</li> <li>london eye tickets</li> <li>lady gaga tickets</li> <li>thorpe park tickets</li> <li>glastonbury tickets</li> <li>wicked tickets</li> <li>olympics 2012 tickets</li> </ol> <h3>Bargain hunting (top cheap searches 2010)</h3> <ol> <li>cheap flights</li> <li>cheap holidays</li> <li>cheap train tickets</li> <li>cheap car insurance</li> <li>cheap smells</li> <li>cheap hotels</li> <li>cheap laptops</li> <li>cheap holiday deals</li> <li>cheap travel insurance</li> <li>cheap rail tickets</li> </ol> <h3>Fastest rising lyrics</h3> <ol> <li>no love lyrics</li> <li>carry out lyrics</li> <li>airplane lyrics</li> <li>starry eyed lyrics</li> <li>unthinkable lyrics</li> <li>california girls lyrics</li> <li>crossfire lyrics</li> <li>rude boy lyrics</li> <li>mine lyrics</li> <li>the cave lyrics</li> </ol> <h3>Top Sports searches</h3> <ol> <li>Football</li> <li>World cup</li> <li>BBC</li> <li>Golf</li> <li>Cricket</li> <li>Arsenal</li> <li>Fantasy Football</li> <li>Fifa</li> <li>Liverpool</li> <li>Sky sports</li> </ol> <h3>“i love” searches (fastest rising)</h3> <ol> <li>i love dance</li> <li>i love coco</li> <li>i love bass</li> <li>i love hoodies</li> <li>i love football</li> </ol> <h3>“i hate” searches (fastest rising)</h3> <ol> <li>i hate mountains</li> <li>i hate snow</li> <li>i hate football</li> <li>i hate mum</li> <li>i hate love</li> </ol> <h3>“i want” searches (fastest rising)</h3> <ol> <li>i want popcorn</li> <li>i want love</li> <li>i want out</li> <li>i want you</li> <li>i want money</li> </ol> <h3>“who is” searches (fastest rising)</h3> <ol> <li>who is salt</li> <li>who is shawty</li> <li>who is fonejacker</li> <li>who is technoviking</li> <li>who is banksy</li> </ol> <h3>i feel (fastest rising)</h3> <ol> <li>i feel better</li> <li>i feel free</li> <li>i feel depressed</li> <li>i feel lonely</li> <li>i feel fat</li> </ol> <h3>2010 overall most searched</h3> <ol> <li>Facebook</li> <li>BBC</li> <li>Youtube</li> <li>Hotmail</li> <li>Ebay</li> <li>Google</li> <li>you</li> <li>games</li> <li>mail</li> <li>news</li> </ol> <h3>Top food and drink</h3> <ol> <li>Tesco</li> <li>Recipes</li> <li>ASDA</li> <li>Pizza</li> <li>Wine</li> <li>Sainsburys</li> <li>Jamie Oliver</li> <li>Morrisons</li> <li>Cakes</li> <li>Curry</li> </ol> <h3>High street most searched</h3> <ol> <li>argos</li> <li>tesco</li> <li>next</li> <li>asda</li> <li>john lewis</li> <li>new look</li> <li>asos</li> <li>river island</li> <li>debenhams</li> <li>marks and spencer</li> </ol> <h3>Zeitgeist Explained</h3> <p>Zeitgeist means “spirit of the times”. And because people use Google to search for what’s new and interesting, their queries, when seen in volume, tend to be a good reflection of what’s on people’s minds. Amazingly enough as many as 25% of the search queries we get an any given day are new – meaning we have not seen them before.</p> <p>The Google Zeitgeist is calculated by looking at the aggregation of the most popular and fast-rising search queries being typed into the <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/">Google.co.uk</a> search box. Google Zeitgeist tools can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur over time. These tools are available year-round for you to play with, explore, and learn from: <a href="http://www.google.com/zeitgeist">www.google.com/zeitgeist</a></p><h3>About Google Inc.</h3> <p>Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.google.com/">www.google.com</a>.</p><h3>Media Contact</h3> <p>Clara Armand-Delille<br /><a href="mailto:claraad@google.com">claraad@google.com</a></p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20101206_nexus.html2010-12-06T16:00:00Z2010-12-06T16:00:00Z<p><strong>6 December, London – </strong>Google™ today announced the latest release of the Android™ platform, Android 2.3 (known as Gingerbread) and unveiled the next Android device from the ‘Nexus’ line of mobile phone products – Nexus S™.</p> <p>Nexus S was co-developed with Samsung, ensuring tight integration of hardware and software to highlight the latest advancements of the Android platform. Nexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also includes NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.</p> <p>Nexus S is also the first device to ship with Android 2.3, the latest version of the software platform and the fastest version of Android yet. It delivers a number of improvements, including user interface refinements, NFC support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support, which is especially useful for games. For developers, the Gingerbread SDK/NDK is now available, and in the coming weeks Gingerbread will be open sourced.</p> <p>Other features of the Nexus S include:</p> <ul> <li>1 GHz Hummingbird processor with dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) – the fast processor combined with GPU makes the Nexus S one of the fastest phones on the market, great for video games and playing back video and browsing the web</li> <li>The Contour Display reflects up to four times less glare under direct sunlight and is up to 1.5 times brighter than traditional LCD displays</li> <li>Front and rear facing cameras for video chats on the move</li> <li>16GB of internal memory</li> </ul> <p>Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering, said, “As the lead device for Gingerbread, Nexus S combines great hardware with great software to provide users with a fast and powerful mobile experience. We believe Nexus S will drive innovation in the mobile space that will benefit our users, our partners and developers working on Android, and the entire mobile industry.”</p> <p>Nexus S delivers a “pure Google” experience, meaning unlocked, unfiltered access to the best Google mobile services and the latest Android releases and updates. Nexus S will receive the latest Android software platform updates first, pushed out directly from Google.</p> <p>The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android’s vision of openness has spurred the development of hundreds of <a href="http://www.google.com/phone/">different Android devices</a>. Today, over 200,000 Android devices are activated daily worldwide.</p> <p>Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK retailers will offer Nexus S for free from £35/month or SIM free from £549.95. Customers can pre-order at <a href="http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/" rel="nofollow">www.carphonewarehouse.com</a> and go to <a href="http://www.bestbuy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">www.bestbuy.co.uk</a> to find out more from today.</p> <p>For more information and to view videos of Nexus S in action, visit <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/">google.co.uk/nexus</a>.</p>Google PRtag:google.com,2010:press_ALL_uk:/intl/ALL_uk/press/pressrel/20101123_turing.html2010-11-23T00:00:00Z2010-11-23T00:00:00Z<p><strong>LONDON, 23 November 2010 – </strong>As <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11818182" rel="nofollow">you may have seen</a>, this afternoon some key papers from British computer scientist and wartime codebreaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing" rel="nofollow">Alan Turing</a> are up for auction at Christie’s in London. Dr Turing is a hero to many of us at Google for his pioneering work on algorithms and the development of computer science. He’s also an important figure for many across the world who face homophobic attacks and bullying, an issue that <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/working-to-stop-bullying-national-ally.html">we have spoken about elsewhere</a>.</p> <p>Why are these papers so important? <a href="http://www.sueblack.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Dr Sue Black</a>, a computer scientist at University College London and a key campaigner for Bletchley Park, where Dr Turing worked, can explain better than anyone:</p> <blockquote><p>“The lot includes the codebreaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Newman" rel="nofollow">Max Newman</a>’s copies of many of Turing’s papers. Some of the papers have on them comments from Newman, a friend of Turing, who testified in his defence at his trial. These papers belong at <a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">Bletchley Park</a>, home of the codebreakers, where these two codebreakers worked together side by side, helping to save millions of lives during World War Two.”</p></blockquote> <p>Sue asked Google for our support in purchasing the papers for Bletchley Park, which we agree is clearly the right place to house them. As has been <a href="http://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/6946168726618113" rel="nofollow">reported</a> this morning, we are backing the bid with a contribution of $100,000 towards a successful purchase.</p> <p>There’s still a long way to go to raise all the money required, and we hope that others will be able to come forward too. The deadline for contributions to the bid has been extended until 2:00 PM GMT today, and anyone who is interested in supporting it should <a href="http://twitter.com/dr_black" rel="nofollow">contact Sue</a> or go to: <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/" rel="nofollow">www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/</a></p><h3>Press contacts</h3> <p><strong>Bletchley Park</strong><br>Kelsey Griffin<br><a href="mailto:kgriffin@bletchleypark.org.uk">kgriffin@bletchleypark.org.uk</a><br>01908 272655</p> <p><strong>Google</strong><br>Clara Armand-Delille<br><a href="mailto:claraad@google.com">claraad@google.com</a><br>020 7881 4644</p>Google PR