Malaysia and Singapore Google Zeitgeist 2008

Google zeitgeist

"Fastest rising" means Google looked at the most popular searches conducted for 11 months of 2008 (they compile this list by early December) and then ranked them based on how much their popularity increased compared to 2007. "Most popular" searches are ranked in order of the queries with the largest volume of searches for 2008. 

 MALAYSIA Fastest Rising 1. Malaysiakini 2. Facebook 3. harakah 4. tv3 5. Malaysia today 6. RapidShare 7. Blogspot 8. youtube 9. Malaysian insider 10. Beijing 2008 

 Most Popular 1. youtube 2. yahoo 3. Friendster 4. Utusan 5. mp3 6. google 7. games 8. map 9. lyrics 10. myspace 

 Google News local searches 1. ibiden Asia 2. Anwar Ibrahim 3. Datuk Seri 4. Olympic badminton results 5. Chua soi lek 6. Malaysian election results 7. Malaysia budget 2009 8. Malaysia new cabinet 9. Permatang pauh election 10. gamuda bhd 

 Local celebrities 1. Anwar Ibrahim 2. Barack Obama 3. lim kit siang 4. Chua soi lek 5. Mahathir Mohamad 6. Miley Cyrus 7. lee Chong Wei 8. tony pua 9. Hannah Montana 10. Siti Nurhaliza

 Local travel destinations 1. terengganu 2. pulau tioman 3. genting highland 4. port dickson 5. melaka 6. penang 7. pulau perhentian 8. bukit tinggi 9. sunway lagoon 10. selangor 

 Car brands 1. perodua nautica 2. toyota rush 3. proton mpv 4. proton blm 5. honda city 6. proton saga 7. grand livina 8. honda accord 9. myvi 10. honda civic 

 SINGAPORE Fastest Rising 1. Edison Chen 2. Olympics 3. Facebook 4. iPhone 5. f1 6. google map 7. htc 8. maps 9. wiki 10. Beijing Olympics

 Most Popular 1. lyrics 2. youtube 3. yahoo 4. map 5. google 6. games 7. wiki 8. Facebook 9. blog 10. video 

 Google News local searches 1. Singapore Olympics 2. singapore table tennis 3. singapore terrorist 4. youth Olympics 5. 3g iPhone 6. Philips electronics singapore 7. f1 night race 8. singapore recession 9. mas Selamat 10. Feng tianwei 

 Hawker Centres 1. maxwell hawker centre 2. newton hawker centre 3. Chinatown hawker centre 4. adam road hawker centre 5. east coast park hawker centre 6. Whampoa hawker centre 7. changi village hawker centre 8. lagoon hawker centre 9. holland village hawker centre 10. tekka market 

 Local foods 1. chicken rice 2. punggol crab noodle 3. drunk prawn 4. kaya toast 5. popiah 6. bak kwa 7. laksa 8. muah chee 9. hokkien mee 10. nasi padang 

 Olympics 1. Beijing Olympics 2. table tennis Olympics 3. Olympic medal 4. tao li 5. Usain bolt 6. Michael Phelps 7. gymnastics 8. li jiawei 9. Liu Xiang 10. Stephanie rice 

 According to Wikipedia Zeitgeist is a German word. It means the spirit of the age and its society. 

Source: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008