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Top Ten Fastest Rising Google Oz Searches For 09, Swine Flu, Twitter, Bing, Masterchef Included

Google Australia has revealed the top ten fastest rising searches for 2009 on google.com.au. A year ago the top searches included Heath Ledger, Barack Obama and iPhones. This year so far, the top three fastest rising searches have been ‘swine flu’, ‘susan boyle and ‘masterchef’.

Notably, among the top ten were also ‘twitter’, ‘bing’ and ‘stimulus package’. It’s certainly no surprise that ‘Michael Jackson’ has been one of the fastest rising people searches of the year so far, given his sudden and untimely death.

Following are a few of the top ten lists. See the rest of the lists at Official Google Australia Blog.

Fastest rising searches of 2009:
swine flu
susan boyle
masterchef
stimulus package
wimbledon
twitter
bing
one hd
afl fixture 2009
bruno

Fastest rising ‘people’ searches of 2009:
susan boyle
bruno
jade goody
michael jackson
taylor swift
lily allen
robert pattinson
lady gaga
megan fox
stephenie meyer

Fastest rising searches for products/services of 2009:
twitter
bing
one hd
windows 7
facebook
skype download
picnik
avg free download
google chrome
itunes download

Michael Jackson Has Become The Most Popular Person On Facebook

Michael Jackson has posthuumously become the most popular person on Facebook. In terms of numbers, Jackson’s Facebook fan page now has more fans than Barack Obama’s.

Since his death, Jackson’s page has grown from around 80,000 fans to over 6.6 million. Apparently the page has been gaining fans at a peak rate of around 20 fans every second! No doubt the number of fans will continue to grow rapidly with the various tributes and memorials happening at the moment.

It’s not hard to imagine Michael Jackson becoming even more popular in death than icons such as Elvis and Marilyn Monroe.