Ever wondered if other people are searching for the same stuff as you? Of course you have, which is why everyone loves it when Google reveals who has been searching for what and where during 2008. Let's go around the world in 80 searches.

As Sarah Palin readies herself for the make-or-break live vice-presidential debate in just a few hours from now, perhaps the Internet can offer some timely if not altogether serious debating advice...

Already convicted and sentenced to public hanging by the right-wing political blogosphere, the supposed Palin hacker has yet to be indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. But that is not to say that the son of a Democratic state representative from Memphis is off the hook just yet...

Cue marching band music and a big cartoon foot. US Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, hackers have revealed, has used a Yahoo! free webmail account to talk government business with aides. Arguments over whether this was pure stupidity or a clever attempt to avoid those emails becoming public record rage. One thing is for sure, the hackers have made the Palin campaign a little more 'open and transparent' than she might have wanted...