Every year the good folks over at Google get together to tell us all about the things we’ve been search­ing for over the past twelve months. And so with­out fur­ther adieu, I give you the 10 most pop­u­lar searches on google.com in 2006.

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. meta­cafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mini­nova
10. wiki

It looks like tech­nol­ogy ruled the roost again this year, with only the num­ber three most pop­u­lar search “world cup” avoid­ing the whole geek chic cul­ture. But what’s that you say? You haven’t heard of half of the things on this list? That’s ok, nei­ther have I — and I con­sider myself a pretty tech-saavy per­son. Yet I actu­ally had to search bebo before writ­ing this arti­cle just to make sure I wasn’t com­pletely out of touch with the real world (for those of you scratch­ing your noo­dles like I was, it turns out it’s a myspace-like community.)

If you want to see a ton of great top ten lists just like this to get a bet­ter sense of what held inter­est for peo­ple in the year that was, hop on over to Google Zeit­geist 2006. Every­thing from the top ten searches ask­ing “who is” to the top ten searches for tick­ets are. All very neat stuff!