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Interactive version of 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and trends. We hope you enjoy this aggregate look at what people wanted to know more about this year.

[ Read 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist ]

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It is quite interesting to know what interested people most in the past year.

Found that Google added a new link at Google homepage for the century great disaster. It links to a page with tsunami information and donation links.

Like so many others around the world, we’re following the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami that has hit many parts of Asia and India. Below are a few sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected.

[ Read Google Tsunami Relief ]

NEW YORK – Many travelers by now are accustomed to getting maps and driving directions on the Internet. A new offering from Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) will now provide real-time traffic conditions as well.

Using information from radio traffic reports, police scanners, embedded road sensors and traffic helicopters, Yahoo will warn motorists of construction and other delays along a planned route. In some cases, the new service will also provide weather advisories issued by state and local jurisdictions.

[ Read Yahoo! News ]

China is rolling out the first network based on Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) technology, a major component of the next-generation Internet.

Dubbed CERNET2 (China Education and Research Network), the new backbone network connects 25 universities in 20 cities.

Officials claim top transmission speeds of 2.5 to 10 gigabits per second, with a trial connecting schools in Beijing and Tianjin reaching 40 gigabits per second. Coverage is expected to expand to 100 universities in the near future.

[ Read Yahoo! News ]

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Days after Google acted to thwart the Santy worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines.

The Santy problem originally flared up a week ago as bulletin board Web sites found their pages erased and defaced by the worm’s own text. The worm spread by targeting pages that used vulnerable versions of the PHP Bulletin Board (phpBB) software, and used Google to locate those pages.

After Google took measures to prevent the worm from executing Google searches for the faulty bulletin board software, Santy variants are making the rounds using AOL and Yahoo search, according to security firms, and are still targeting Google as well.

[ Read News.com ]