December 29th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

Google had a big year in 2009. The Droid won gadget of the year from TIME. Over one million invites to the Google Wave platform were sent. The Google Chrome web browser increased its market share, and even a Chrome Operating System for netbooks was released.

Google Zeitgeist is a year end summary of trends that Google tracks, based on the billions of search queries that Google servers execute. The word zeitgeist means literally “spirit of the times.”

Google trends can be traced across a variety of subjects, and filtered by country.   It is certainly worth checking out the Google Zeitgeist page for the full picture.

Google had a big year in 2009 and I’m sure we can expect more big initiatives in 2010 from the worlds largest search engine.  Google’s continued dominance of the web is one of my ten tech predictions for 2010.

What trends do you predict will rise and fall in 2010?  Do you think Google will lose market share to competitors Yahoo and Bing?

Tags: 2009, analytics, data, google, timeline, trends, zeitgeist