Top Google search of 2006: ‘Bebo’

By Steve Safran 

A stunning upset. A Cinderella story. An underdog… you get the idea. Google Zeitgeist has its top searches of 2006. The number one search on Google this past year? Bebo. The social networking site outsearched the number two term, MySpace. As for the number one Google News search term? As you would have guessed: Paris Hilton. (Clever headline from Australia’s Courrer-Mail: Hilton Most Hit Upon.) Orlando Bloom is #2 and you have to go down to #5, Hurricane Katrina, before you find a hard news story.

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