In a world of ever increasing technology we also find new words emerge in an effort to explain them to the masses.
It’s refreshing that I am not the only one who thinks about these words and actually wonders if they are just a bunch of pants!
I especially love his gripe about the word ‘google’ but maybe its inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary was after he wrote this blog!
Posted by Simon Evans on Friday 11th of April 2008 at 3:52pm
Have you noticed that people no longer search for things, they ‘Google’ them?
Search Engines have been around since like 1993 & Google went public in 1998… how did people miss the years of it being called ‘searching’?
The way they’re expanding and taking over pretty soon our spoken language will only contain articles, conjunctions and Google:
“Hey, lets google up google this google. I google there is going to be a google and we can totally get googled… google?”
– Googled by Google Google on Google 4th, 2000 Google.
Posted by Simon Evans on Thursday 13th of March 2008 at 11:28am
We already know people are searching for the weather and adult-material, these stats aren’t interesting. What is interesting is Google’s fastest rising search terms globally. This year, it looks like we are searching for friends and communication tools.
10. Club Penguin
Club Penguin is a multi-player online world for children, launched in 2005. Players can talk to each other and earn virtual money. Walt Disney recently bought Club Penguin for $700m and will be launching a UK-version mid-2008. You can still go play the US version though.
Penguins have become a popular search term, which seems to have been sparked by the surprise hit documentary March of the Penguins back in 2005, which grossed over $77 million in the US and Canada. Film-makers were quick to jump on peoples penguin preoccupation and released the animated film Happy Feet in 2006 and the ‘mockumentary’ film Surf’s Up in 2007.
9. hi5
Another social networking site, hi5 allows people to make profiles that display information about themselves, and ‘connect’ with other people on the site.
Social networking has exploded in 2005 thanks to sites like MySpace and Facebook.
8. Second Life
Again, another social application. Second Life is a virtual world created by it’s users. Residents can offer their own products and services and sell these for ‘Linden Dollars’. Some people have even been able to make a sizeable income from Second Life. The downloadable viewer client is open source and can be improved and modified by anyone.
7. eBuddy
eBuddy allows you to login to various instant messaging services without downloading any software. Personally, I prefer Meebo.
6. YouTube
YouTube was created back in 2005 by three ex-Paypal employees. It uses Adobe Flash to st…
Posted by James Hall on Thursday 13th of March 2008 at 10:36am
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