Jackson, Facebook: most Googled words | Offbeat | Weird News, Odd and Freaky Stories in Gladstone

2nd December 2009

AAP

THE late pop icon Michael Jackson was the king of Google's list of fastest-rising searches this year, which included social networking websites, a teenage vampire flick and US singer Lady Gaga.

Facebook came second on Google's Zeitgeist list, released on Tuesday by the search engine, followed by Facebook's Spanish-language counterpart Tuenti in third place and micro-blogging site Twitter.

The Turkish website Sanalika was fifth ahead of New Moon, the title of the popular vampire book from the Twilight series that was made into a movie.

New York-born Lady Gaga was in seventh place ahead of Windows 7, dantri.com.vn and torpedo gratis.

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