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Google Zeitgeist South Africa

Google have just released the Zeitgeist for 2009 in South Africa. The usual top 10 terms for South African are (which tell us how most of you use Google)…

1. facebook
2. yahoo
3. games
4. lyrics
5. jobs
6. gumtree
7. google
8. gmail
9. news
10. absa

The fastest climbing search queries on Google in South Africa are:

1. facebook login
2. gumtree cape town
3. efiling
4. absa internet banking
5. yahoo mail
6. gmail.com
7. quotes
8. twitter
9. standard bank
10. junkmail cars

I have no clue what a tuenti, torpedo gratis, dantri or sanalika are. Do you know what those search term are for? (Google published the wrong list at first. It has now been recitified)

View the rest of the South African search Trends on Google Zeigeist which also include:

• Most searched for sports events
• Most searched for politician (Is malema really a politician? I thought he was a cartoon character)
• Most searched for South African celebs
• Most searched recession queries

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