LISNews: Librarian News

Carl Fogle passed along word on Live Query, a project that can be seen at Google\'s headquarters. It shows, in real time, updated samples of what people around the world are typing into Google\'s search engine.
``You can learn to say `sex\' in a lot of different languages by looking at the logs,\'\' said Craig Silverstein, director of technology at Google.
They say Google\'s worldwide scope means the company can track ideas and phenomena as they hop from country to country.
I guess Google Zeitgeist is the closest thing we can see.