(1) A snapshot in time by week, month and year of what people were searching for in Google. Zeitgeist results were routinely published for the public beginning in 2001 but were dropped in 2007. (2) ...

Some words help us understand the world around us, and zeitgeist is one of those words. It means “the spirit of the time” and describes the shared mood, beliefs, and concerns that shape how people ...

A program that works out the meaning of newly coined words using the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could help machines understand the slang used in blogs and other informal texts, say researchers.