Huge Yahoo! Infographic Tells The Story of 2010's Top Search Trends
What will we remember from 2010, looking back years from now? Yahoo! had put together a year in review infographic that highlights search obsessions, pop culture phenomena, and news that were most visible throughout the year. We've got the infographic and some cool statistics about 2010 for you below.
What will we remember from 2010, looking back years from now? Yahoo! has put together a year in review infographic that highlights search obsessions, pop culture phenomena, and news items that were most visible throughout the year. We’ve got the infographic and some cool statistics about 2010 for you below.
Yahoo! divided up the year into several categories of interest: inspiring acts, natural disasters, financial uprisings, good sports and survivor stories. These are the clusters of events and stories that will prove to define 2010.
Taking a close look, we see some familiar events: the Chilean miner rescue within the survivor stories; unemployment concerns in the financial uprisings cluster; the Haiti earthquake in natural disasters; the World Cup as part of our good sports obsession. But there are some other, slightly more minor, stories that caught the headlines and that made 2010 what it was, too.
Inspiring acts is a category that deserves some mention here. Take Operation Beautiful for example. They are a network of women – many anonymous – who leave post-it notes in women’s bathrooms and other places that women frequent, to let them know they’re beautiful and to help them love themselves. 2010 saw this simple, good-hearted campaign flourish. Hopefully we’ll still be feeling the reverberation of some of these kind and inspiring acts in 2011 and beyond.
Here’s the yahoo! Year in Review 2010 infographic:
Lots of defining events didn’t make it onto the infographic, as the Yahoo! Year in Review blog notes. 2010 saw the official end to military operations in Iraq, tension rising between North and South Korea, and celebrities up to their usual antics. Is there a defining event of 2010 that you think should have made it onto the infographic, but didn’t?
