Irish Examiner View: Everyone’s big brother

Google is such a part of people’s lives that its annual report of its most popular searches is synonymous with the identification of national and international interests

Google is such a fundamental part of our lives that the name of the company is now a synonym for searching.

Before we took to the online world with such gusto, it could be difficult to gauge what exactly people were interested in.

The old Irish expression about a topic being i mbéal an phobail — in the mouths of the public — was a vivid description of how that matter was dominating discussions, but how could one be more exact? To use the ultimate 21st-century question, where was the data?