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.”