Google today announced its annual Zeitgeist, featuring lists and charts of the most popular and fastest-rising global search terms that people have typed into Google.com. If you're interested in revisiting this year's top scandals, or learning who wins in a Suri vs. Shiloh face-off, or which sport is most popular – visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html to read all about what spurred people's collective curiosity in 2006.

This year's Google Zeitgeist reveals the following trends:

• What's hot: the who, what and how of what's being searched
• Current events: top searched scandals, political figures and global regions
• Milestones: most searched divorces, weddings, deaths and births of 2006
• Entertainment: what movies and TV shows were hot this year
• Sports: top searched sporting events, who retired and whose jerseys were most sought after