For the first time, Google has released the top search queries of more than 30 countries via Google’s annual Year-End Zeitgeist.
So here are the Faster Rising Global Search queries of 2008:

sarah palin – Even though Sarah Palin couldn’t win the US Election ‘08 with Mccain, it seems like she was the hottest topic in [...]

Firstly, If you are new to the world of SEO & Search Marketing, I’d strongly advice you to read my Newbie Guide to SEO. It has all the basic elements that you may need to get your blog/website to rank in the search engines.
In that article I briefly touched on “finding a niche” and [...]