After Microsoft and Yahoo, it is time for Google to deliver its 2009 list of most popular queries on its search engine. The result is the famous social network Facebook, which topped the most searched terms this year by French.
The first place of Facebook’s ranking in Google France is linked to the popular social network in France. According to Mediametrie, Facebook is now not less than 18.5 million unique visitors per month in France (turnover in October 2009).
Behind Facebook, there are another essential site of the Web, namely the platform of YouTube videos (first complaint filed in 2008 on Google France). The keyword “games” complete the podium. After “you”, “yahoo”, “tv”, “orange”, “forecast”, “Le bon coin”, and “hotmail”.
Unlike the classification engine Yahoo! Search or Bing.com (Microsoft), Michael Jackson is not among the ten most searched terms on Google.
The terms “Allostreaming”, “Facebook”, “Good corner” ranked at the top queries that experienced the largest increase this year. The iPhone (6th) and actor Robert Pattinson (8th) are also included in this ranking.
The “Google Zeitgeist 2009″ also provides a ranking of the most popular queries related to the news (media and politicians). The World tops research before Le Figaro, TF1, Le Parisien, Lib?ration, “Sarkozy, 20 minutes,” Obama, “” news “and Les Echos.
Another curiosity, the rankings of the most-searched by French users of Google. The Spot Orange ranks before those of Vittel, TF1, Vodafone, Renault, Oasis, Nike, iPhone, Free and Evian.
Finally, fun island side, the movie Twilight has been the complaint that experienced the strongest growth, before Michael Jackson.
Globally, Michael Jackson is the query that experienced the largest gain on Google to Facebook. The site Twitter micro-blogging is 4th, singer Lady Gaga ranks 7th, just before Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft.
Google is the search engine most used worldwide. It is also the site most accessed in France with 31 million unique visitors monthly.