Google Zeitgeist '06

The Washington Post reports Google has released it's annual "Zeitgeist" report that peeks into the most popular search terms over the last year. Podcasting showed up as number 4 on the list. I found it intriguing that one of the items was the interest in the popular Web 2.0 programming language "Ajax". YouTube was absent from the list entirely. It seems Web 2.0 issues and technologies dominated search in 2006.

"The top search terms were words related to user-generated content, such as blogs, social networking sites and podcasts."

The impact that user generation and RSS based content distribution are having the web is sure to be top amongst the year end "wrap-up" technology articles that will no doubt be gracing my bookmarks and feed reader in the coming weeks.