I just came across Google’s annual Zeitgeist report on the Web. This is a report summarized what people have searched on Google for the year 2006.

The top searches on Google.com were:

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

On the other hand, the top searches on Google News were:

1. paris hilton
2. orlando bloom
3. cancer
4. podcasting
5. hurricane katrina
6. bankruptcy
7. martina hingis
8. autism
9. 2006 nfl draft
10. celebrity big brother 2006

You can find more categories and results revealed by Google at 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.

In October this year, Google has launched and operated another search engine namely, Searchmash. I’m not going to talk about this Ajax-based search engine here. However, I wonder Google will publish the same kind of top searches report based on the traffic of Searchmash. Obviously, for all the keywords that used to search on Google, I guess most people are searches for some types of entertainment activities on the Web. I recall an Internet Study published by Stanford University, the average user is engaging in at least 5 distinct types of activities on the Web: a combination of different types of information searches, entertainment and games, and for one quarter, some commercial transactional activity. This is exactly correct when we match the above keywords that used to search on Google with the search behavior that listed in the Stanford’s Internet Study.