Google’s Top 10 Search Term’s of ‘08
Oh if it weren’t for Big Brother, we just wouldn’t know!
‘Sarah Palin’ Was ‘08 Fastest-Rising Search Term | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com
It’s the end of the world as we know it: As if failing
banks and a rising jobless rate weren’t enough to worry about, the
Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator lying under the
Franco-Swiss border, has inspired bigger fears. Doomsday-inclined
scientists say the apparatus, 17 miles in circumference, could
accidentally produce black holes or hypothetical particles known as
strangelets, either of which would destroy the earth. (It was switched
on in early September, to no disastrous effect.) Such science-fiction
outcomes helped make “particle accelerator” or “Large Hadron Collider”
one of the fastest-rising search terms in New Zealand, Austria and
other countries. The French and Swiss, despite sitting on top of the
device, were strangely unworried.
Classic…
