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Australians care for humanity….and the election!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Posted by Karina Wells, AdWords Team
In the month of October, Australians had a great interest in humanitarian issues. Searches varied from charities that aim to help women and children all over the world to concern about bushfire and floods. The Australian October Zeitgeist reflected the top fifteen gaining Google search queries for the month of October.
It seems Australians have a strong social conscience, with
Unicef
coming in as the number one gaining search query. Interest in
floods
and
bushfire
was also prevalent with the bushfire season approaching.
The
election
was playing on peoples minds. Labor leader Kevin Rudd’s website
Kevin 07
proved to be of interest, while
Parliament house
entered the minds of many.
Always a favourite with free home delivery,
Krispy Kreme
doughnuts were desired by many. While munching on Krispy Kremes, what better to do than watch
Evan Almighty
or the preview of the
Sex and the City movie
, or perhaps sample the latest album from alternative rock band
30 seconds to Mars
to be released in November.
Upcoming Christmas school holidays brought about interest in
Movie World
. Although
daylight savings
got people searching - do we turn our clocks forwards or backwards?
Australians in the market for a new car looked for
Toyota Australia
for more information, however those after something more compact went for the
scooter
option instead.
With Christmas on the way and lots of presents to buy, job hunters looked for the
Jobs NSW
website.
For breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search on Google. What follows is a summary of Google Zeitgeist results for the top gainers on
Google.com.au
in the month of October.
For more information, visit the Google
Zeitgeist
and Google
Trends
.
October's top gainers:
Unicef
Scooter
Floods
Jobs NSW
Toyota Australia
Bushfire
30 seconds to Mars
Evan Almighty
Movie World
Daylight savings
Krispy Kreme
Parliament house
Sex and the City movie
Kevin 07
Election
Labels
20%
3D
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AdWords
AdWords Express
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agencies adwords TV
Analytics
android
announcements
antarctica
App Marketplace
apps
art
Australia
Australian IT
big data
Big Query
blogging
blogs
books
broadband
business
calendar
campaign management
careers
CeBIT
chrome
Chromebox
cloud computing
competition
computer science
conversion tracking
creativity
currents
cyber safety
cycling
dashboard
Developer Day
developers
digital advertising
digital economy
Display
display ads
Doodles
drive
ebooks
education
Election
energy
enhanced campaigns
Enterprise
entrepreneurship
environment
Equatorgate
Fairfax
film
filtering
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