HotForWords » Google http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google named ‘word of the decade’ by American speech scholars http://hotforwords.com/2010/01/15/google-named-word-of-the-decade-by-american-speech-scholars/ http://hotforwords.com/2010/01/15/google-named-word-of-the-decade-by-american-speech-scholars/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:41:56 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8824 As reported in the British Telegraph, Google was chosen as the Word of the Decade by the American Dialect Society (ADS) as EVERYONE uses it as a verb these days!  Other nominees for Word of the Decade were “9/11″, “Facebook”, “blog”, “text”, “WiFi” and “war on terror”.. though, happily, Google won!  You can read the full article here.

The ADS also chose “tweet” as the Word of the Year, edging out the suffix “-er”, “fail”, “H1N1″ (the virus that causes swine flu) and “Dracula Sneeze”, which is covering one’s mouth with the crook of one’s elbow when sneezing.  I like “tweet” as it’s happier than “unfriend” which was chosen by the New Oxford English Dictionary though I would have LOVED it if “Dracula Sneeze” had won!

By the way, the image above is Google from Ye Olde Colonial days (courtesy of Google Blogoscoped) and below is an image of Google a little while later, but still Pre-Internet. What do you all think about Google being the word of the decade?  Good thing the word wasn’t “duotrigintillion!”

]]> http://hotforwords.com/2010/01/15/google-named-word-of-the-decade-by-american-speech-scholars/feed/ 26 #1 and #2 on Google Trends yesterday :-) http://hotforwords.com/2009/04/10/1-and-2-on-google-trends-yesterday/ http://hotforwords.com/2009/04/10/1-and-2-on-google-trends-yesterday/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:09:10 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=3904 goog-trends1

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Look at who was #1 and #2 on Google Trends yesterday :-)

The chart shows you what is being searched for the most for the day.  They said that I was Volcanic :-)

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Google the word “video” and click on the first thing that comes up. (Looks like it has changed.. but for the past 3 days… I was #1! :-) ) For some reason, my Fifth Element video was the #1 video on all of Google’s Video Page.. which tracks ALL videos on the net!

I have no idea why the video is suddenly popular again, as I made the video over a year ago!

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