The end of the year - time for the holidays and all their baggage; the shopping, the wonder, the nostalgia, compulsory parties, too much eating, too much drinking and so on. The close of the year also heralds countless top-10 lists, corporate assessments, budget planning, fractured, anxious dreams (for me, at least), hours of self-reflection in preparation for a broadcast of hollow resolutions, and now, this nifty, fascinating, somewhat depressing report from the geeks in Mountain View.

Behold, the Google Zeitgeist 2008.