A large tornado moved through much of the city on May 22, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing 161 people. Mousing over each large circle on the timeline reveals the topic it represents, how many searches it amassed during the year, and when that topic peaked. text: A March 11 earthquake in northern Japan triggered a tsunami, which sent three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into meltdown, the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. title: Dominique-Strauss Kahn Arrested on Sex-Assault Charges
December 12, 2011 The Best Book I Read This Year Atlantic editors and writers share their favorite titles—new, classic, or somewhere in between—from a year of reading Year in Review: The Big Stories of 2011 The events that defined 2011, from the death of Bin Laden to Occupy Wall St. media: 13480402 Dugard, 31, who was kidnapped by Philip Garrido when she was 11and was raped and imprisoned in his backyard, giving birth to two of his children. He was replaced by Ashton Kutcher. Before many of your Twitter and Facebook connections became de-facto editors running their own news bureaus, Google was the only game in town. Anders Behring Breivik confessed to the attack which killed 77 people. Nearly 23 million Americans watched the magnificent ceremony. title: "Winning" No More text: President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton and other top officials watch video of the firefight that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1. text:President Obama met with Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, , and other congressional leaders to negotiate a deal to avoid the nation defaulting on its debt. text:The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 8 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The cliffhanger went down to the wire. News organizations could write a search-engine-optimized headline and call it a day.But even as more immediate (and passive) ways of receiving breaking news proliferate, Google search queries show just how vital googling something remains. This year, for example, location-based search queries during general elections in the UK proved to be a better predictor of the outcome than opinion polls.“In an election year, we look at Google searches for party leaders by the electoral boundaries,” Rogers says.
It created a remarkably comprehensive package, one that used trillions of queries as its data pool. “In Paris, people started asking questions about a minute later. text: A gunman attacked a youth camp on the small Norwegian island of Utoya on July 22.
There wasn’t actually a story in the mainstream media for about an hour. Rogers, an award-winning data journalist who worked at Rogers says the year-in-search data is a mix of queries from Google search, Google News, and YouTube. London after that. text: Diane Sawyer conducted the first interview with Jaycee Dugard on July 10. He was indicted on sex-abuse charges following an investigation of more than two years about inappropriate contact with young boys. Google's been doing it for 15 years, and this year, it turned the job over to Google News Lab. text: Sen. Gabby Giffords was shot in the head on Jan. 8 when a gunman opened fire outside a supermaret where Giffords was meeting constituents.
Text: Moammar Gadhafi was killed by rebels in his hometown of Sirte, Libya, on Oct. 20. text:U.S. hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal were freed on Sept. 21 after having been detained in Iran on spying charges. This year was a year in which Android turned up the pressure on Apple, and Google strengthened its links to Samsung, the lead developer of Android … “When I looked at the results, I thought Rogers says his team plans to get even more granular in future editions of the Year In Review.