Googling Google
Google today released the fastest rising and highest volume search terms recorded in New Zealand in 2008. I don't want to repeat the whole list, you can see it here.
However, I have found the list somewhat strange, first it's in the news, but you cannot find anything in Google Zeitgeist, where Google usually publish these stuffs.
The other one is, Google itself is placed sixth of the list. after "Trademe", but before "TV".
Here's my interpretation. There's a trend that, especially among the young people, when you want to visit facebook, very few people actually type facebook.com: what they do is type google.com, then search facebook. They also tend to ignore the "I'm feeling lucky" button, which may save them 5 seconds.
I also understand some people don't even bother to type google.com, instead, they just ask "google" in the address bar. Most of modern browser will take all apparently non-URL form queries to a designated search engine.
Well, it just shows that search engines are becoming more like a doorway to the Internet, a kind of replacement of your browser's address bar.
