 TV star and conservationist Steve Irwin was killed in September when a stingray barb pierced his chest while snorkelling in Queensland, Australia.
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was among the most popular subjects typed into the Google search engine in the United Kingdom this year.A survey by the internet group found the life and death of Irwin was surpassed only by video searches - such as those found on YouTube.com - and queries about the soccer World Cup in the list of the UK's top 10 fastest-growing query subjects, British media report. Irwin, who was killed in September when a stingray barb pierced his chest, also featured on the list of most searched-for celebrities. Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes was the most popular celebrity wedding among UK "Googlers", followed by the nuptials between Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban in Sydney. Google examined billions of searches from the past year to create a snapshot of queries for its 2006 End of Year UK Zeitgeist. Google 今天公布2006年十大最流行搜索词汇。这些词汇与人们的日常生活均有着极为密切的联系，单个词汇的搜索点击点量均超过了十亿次，为 Google 带来的利润则达到3000余万美元。 Google 2006年十大流行搜索词汇分别是： 第一位：视频(video) 第二位： 世界杯(world cup) 第三位：斯蒂夫·欧文(Steve Irwin) 第四位：《越狱》(prison break) 第五位：维基百科(wiki) 第六位：百万欧元(euro millions) 第七位：《老大哥》(big brother) 第八位：迷失(lost) 第九位："冰峰"网游联赛(tfl) 第十位：天气(weather)
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