Ver-r-r-y Interesting

Google has released its zeitgeist for 2006, the most popular searches and the most popular news searches. It's always fun to see what people are thinking about, although perhaps a little discouraging to discover that a) there are number of things that the whole rest of the world is searching for that I didn't recognize, and b) our collective taste in news topics is relentlessly trivial (Paris Hilton?!?). Two of the top 10 searches are Spanish language sites. This might be telling us something about the global use of the Net...