2009 in Popular Searches

Google’s type-ahead search suggestions often provide interesting insight into what the world wants to know. Recently I was curious about the most commonly researched definitions on Google, and realized that what I discovered resembled a twisted snapshot of the year in review. I submit the following:

• love
• ethics
• culture
• socialism
• integrity
• irony
• leadership
• twitter
• agnostic
• pandemic

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