Mountain View, Calif. - Google has released its year-end Zeitgeist, which saw U.K. social networking site "Bebo" claim the title of most-searched term on Google in 2006.

Other top 10 search terms in 2006 included "MySpace," "World Cup," "Metacafe" and "Wikipedia." The only band to crack the top 10 was "Rebelde," which grew out of the Mexican telenovela of the same name produced by Televisa. Another notable term in the top 10 was "Mininova," a site that lists files available for download on the BitTorrent file-sharing network.

On Google News, which limits searches to news sources like newspapers and blogs, "Paris Hilton" was the top search term of 2006, followed by "Orlando Bloom," "Cancer" and "Podcasting."

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