In just few days we are going to say good bye to year 2011 and welcome new year 2012. Inorder to re-coup popular searches on google search engine, zeitgeist has released top searches for the year 2011.
 According to Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched

What mattered in 2011? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.

Google+ or Google Plus search on #1 search engine shot up by > 10000%

Guess what was the keyword that took the #2 spot?

You guessed it right, keyword Google+ or Google Plus grabbed the #2 spot on Google’s list of fastest rising searches in 2011 with searches shot up by greater than 10000%, wow!!

On another note, between July 3rd and July 17th search / interest for the keyword Google+ or Google Plus surpassed that of keyword Sports.

Here is a list of some of the popular keywords people used to search to learn about Google+

• google+
• google earth plus
• google plus facebook
• google chrome plus
• chrome plus

Interested in knowing more about this? Google Zeitgeist 2011 has nice slides about this story, you may want to stop by and check it out.