MANILA, Philippines — Jose Rizal, the country’s national hero, has defeated Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as the most searched personality keywords in Google.com.ph, a local version of the popular search engine.
Filipino actress Angel Locsin, on the other hand, dominated keywords related to female actresses, according to Google.
Google has released its Zeitgeist for the Philippines — which is a compilation of the fastest rising search terms that people had been typing in Google.com.ph in 2007.
Zeitgeist means “spirit of the times,” which a term Google now uses to describe what people are searching for online. The keywords used and typed on the search bar tend to indicate what people are looking for online.
?Amazingly enough, as many as 25 percent of the search queries we get on any given day are new — meaning we have not seen them before. The Google Zeitgeist is calculated by looking at the aggregation of the most popular and fast-rising search queries being typed into the Google.com.ph search box,? Google said.
For 2007, the top keyword search terms are “friendster,” “youtube,” “Wikipedia,” “cebu pacific,” “sss (Social Security System), “games,” “dictionary,” “naruto,” “Philippine Airlines” and “NBA.”
Google has also compiled the “fastest rising searches in 2007.” They are “imeem,” “friendster-layouts,” “inquirer.net,” “iphone,” “crunchyroll,” “granado espada,” “Facebook,” “princess hours,” “esnips” and “youtube.”
Meanwhile, the top Tagalog keywords are tula (poem), talumpati (speech), maikling kwento (short story), salawikain (proverbs), bugtong (riddle), panitikan (literature), alamat (legend), wika (language), alibata (traditional alphabet) and tayutay (figure of speech).
