Google: Detroit Searches for News; Farmington Searches for Zangle

Google has become synonymous with search on the web, but what exactly do people search most for?

Detroiters, it seems, are looking for news, reports Huffington Post Detroit, which took a look at the regional Detroit list released Thursday as part of the Google Zeitgeist Report for 2011. Six of the Top 10 search terms in the Detroit regional summary are for local news organizations, specifically the TV stations. "Fox 2 News" takes the top spot, with "Click On Detroit" in second followed closely by "Wdiv."

Nationwide, people searched for pop culture – "Rebecca Black" was the No. 1 search – and Apple secured two spots in the Top 10 with "iPhone 5" and "Steve Jobs."

Here's the complete list.

What about searches involving our communities?

For the past 12 months, top searches related to Farmington and Farmington Hills tended to be about, well, Farmington and Farmington Hills. All but one of Google's top 10 search terms were for Farmington, Farmington Hills, Farmington schools and Farmington library, worded in different ways. The only exception was item #10: "apartments". 

Items #1 and #4 on Google's "rising search" list, which measures trending searches, undoubtedly reflect the , called "Zangle". Most of the rest focus on local businesses, with the exception of a Livonia movie theater. And it looks like we may have an epidemic of electronic breakdowns: