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Year of the Wiki on Google Zeitgeist December 21, 2005

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Wiki , trackback

Google’s zeitgeist of top searches for the year is not all that remarkable unless you want to know China’s favourite alternative search engine but the graph for “Wikipedia” maps an interesting taking off point around the end of summer.

Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005
1. Myspace
2. Ares
3. Baidu
4. wikipedia
5. orkut
6. iTunes
7. Sky News
8. World of Warcraft
9. Green Day
10. Leonardo da Vinci

Year of the Wiki on Google Zeitgeist phenom3

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

As the open source concept has moved from software development to photo-sharing to blogging, wikis – collaborative, editable web-based projects – have come into their own. And Wikipedia, the multi-language, meta-compendium of information has grown immensely this year.

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