Google's Zeitgeist: Don't Dig Too Deep for Meaning

If Google's Zeitgeist 2011 -- the company's 11th annual list of the most popular and fastest-rising Internet searches -- truly reflects the spirit of the times, then we must be living in a world of whiffle heads. The top search term was "Rebecca Black." The Web celeb was the No. 1 fastest-rising query globally.

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