Google Zeitgeist provides a weekly, monthly, and yearly overview of what the Web was interested in. Turning to Google itself for a definition of zeitgeist (define:zeitgeist), there's consensus that it refers to "the spirit of the times."And Google Zeitgeist is just that: a mirror that the Web (according to Google) holds up to us, providing a snapshot of the week, month, or year that was.
A typical weekly Google Zeitgeist, shown in fig lists the top 15 gaining queries.
(http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html)
It takes only a few moments of visiting Google Zeitgeist before you're itching to go back a little further in time: the week your second child was born, the month during which the Olympics were held, the year you graduated from high school. Click the Archive link to choose any year from the Google Zeitgeist Archive and display links for every week, month, and year .
