<a href="http://a-jarvis.livejournal.com/374.html">Alice-Azania Jarvis: Sarah Palin, Facebook and a recipe for meatballs</a>

There are plenty of things to be learned from Google’s run-down of the most searched terms this year. For one, Sarah Palin is more popular worldwide than Barak Obama. And Facebook is bigger than the BBC, which in turn is bigger than both Youtube and eBay. Oh, and the UK’s second-favourite recipe is… meatballs. Mm. Meatballs.