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Looking at the Google Zeitgeist is always interesting, if only to confirm all your national stereotypes, for instance in Feb. 2006…

• In the UK we’re a buch of chavs obsessed with ‘the national lottery’, ‘eastenders’, ‘cheap flights’, ‘chantelle’ & ‘katie price’; although we did pull it back with ‘dictionary’ in a respectable 3rd place.
• Brazil were rather obviously searching for ‘carnaval’ & ‘futebol’, but deserve a good pasting for ‘crazy frog’ at no.9
• Candians were rather quaintly searching for ‘love’…ahhh
• Indians were into ‘cricket’ & ‘Harry Potter’ but still rather worried about ‘tsunami’s & ‘bird flu’
• Italians were reving up for Valentines day with ‘san valentino’ at no.1 spot
• Polish were looking for ‘maps of poland’ and ‘Chuck Norris’ videos….hmmmm scary!
• Russians were doing rather well, with ‘holiday’, ‘auto insurance’, ‘snowboard’, ‘real estate agency’, ‘corporate party’ and even ‘building of a sauna’ in there!
• …while the South Africans are searching for a ‘job’ (when they’re not over here dossing!)