Taken from Wikipedia:

Zeitgeist is a german language expression split as: Zeit: time, Geist: spirit. It means ‘the spirit of the age & it’s society’. It describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambiance and moral of an era or a trend.

It also refers to the Weekly, monthly, and annual reports released by Google and based on millions of searches. Google just came out with the list of ‘Fastest rising’ & ‘most popular’ searches for 2008. It can be found at:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/world.html

A couple of surprise entries for me were that of “Genelia d’souza”, thanks to Aamir Khan. :) The second was ’sixth pay commission’. Well, despite of so many terrorist attacks happening in India in the last 11 months, very few people are wanting to know about that I guess.

Clearly, Cricket & Bollywood are the winners for the Indian Googler, apart from Social Networking ofcourse.