Google Weekly Zeitgeist Highlights A Yen For Sports And A Yearning For Spring

This past week, U.S. users searched on Google.com for sports news: racing (Danica Patrick, Paul Dana), basketball (George Mason), golf (Tiger Woods), skating (Sasha Cohen). Predictably, celebrities also garnered plenty of queries (Scarlett Johansson, Buck Owens, Shakira, Rocio Durcal, Kevin “Chicken Little” Covais), as did new movies (Stay Alive, Inside Man). Perhaps the most revealing query this week was for daylight savings time - it seems we’re all ready for spring to arrive. (And it does, on Sunday, April 2 at 2 a.m. - don’t forget to set your clock one hour forward.)

For breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search on Google. Below is a summary of the Google Zeitgeist results for the top 15 gainers on Google.com when comparing search queries that have risen by a significant percentage for the week of March 20-27.

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