The 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist statement was issued Thursday. It lists the terms most frequently entered into the company's search engine over the past 12 months.

At Froogle, the company's shopping search site, Apple Computer's iPod digital music player flexed its muscles, leading the most popular consumer electronics queries. Following were digital cameras, MP3s, Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2, portable DVD players, plasma TVs, digital camcorders, PDAs and electric scooters, respectively.