Google adds Zeitgeist abroad

Google has added Zeitgeist to its search engines in India, Ireland and New Zealand. Zeitgeist measures the most popular queries on the search engine.

In January, for example, the top 10 key words searched in India included tsunami, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, tennis star Sania Mirza and Anara Gupta, who figured prominently in a sex scandal in Jammu and Kashmir. For all of 2004, pop diva Britney Spears topped Google search charts worldwide.