Google’s 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist - from the German ‘Zeit’ for time and ‘Geist’ for meaning spirit - is based on more than 55 billion searches conducted by Google users from around the world.

And its fifth most popular news query on a global scale wasn’t Britney, Harry or the Matrix - it was the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), thanks, no doubt, to its unrelenting attacks on file sharers and p2p.

Google’s ‘Most Popular’ queries were:

1. britney spears; 2. harry potter; 3. matrix; 4. shakira; 5. david beckham; 6. 50 cent; 7. iraq; 8. lord of the rings; 9. kobe bryant; and, 10. tour de france.
The ‘Most Popular’ news queries were:

1. iraq; 2. laci peterson; 3. kobe bryant; 4. bertrand cantat; 5. riaa; 6. jessica lynch; 7. michael jackson; 8. elizabeth smart 9. korea; and, 10. dixie chicks

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