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I will try to bring this as a monthly feature here. As soon as Google release their zeitgest monthly information.

If you type ‘www.google.com’ most probably you will be directed to ‘www.google.com.my’ (Malaysian) or a Google address of your country. The search result most of the time are the same, just that Google are aware of regional location. With this Google could served out more targeted regional ads

So what Malaysian search for in the month of January 2007? Here is the list taken from the Google Zeitgest page.

1. friendster
2. myspace
3. berita harian
4. harian metro
5. youtube
6. utusan malaysian
7. airasia
8. wikipedia
9. jobstreet
10. maybank2u
11. uitm
12. tibetan art
13. oriental art
14. jawatan kosong
15. the star

Two well known social networks, Friendster and MySpace is on the top. No doubt Malaysian are picking up on this social network craze. Friendster however is the more predominant then MySpace then the rest. More Malaysian prefer Friendster over MySpace.

Mainstream news papers are also among the search list. Malaysian love to be informed? or may be just the tech savvy Malaysian.

AirAsia the local budget airline is in the top 10. AirAsia promotions on booking tickets online via the web had paid of. Maybank2u is Maybank’s web portal for it’s online banking services. Guess Maybank2u portal is more popular then the other banks.

It also seems that Malaysian are looking for a better job or a better paying job as JobStreet, one of the popular job search web portal and also the search term ‘jawatan kosong’ is among the month of January’s search list.

On a surprise note, Malaysian are also suddenly into arts, mainly Tibetan and oriental arts.

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