Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release from Yahoo on their Top 10 search queries from 2007, Google has decided to have a little fun with lists as well.  Now we have the Fastest Rising Search Queries of 2007. 

So these are theoretically the most buzz-worthy searches…queries which were not so popular last year but this year are on fire.  (This is not to be confused with Google’s own year-end Top 10 most-searched list, which will be released later this month–and will no doubt have Britney Spears near the top). 

So what’s got people’s tongues wagging?  The iPhone…surprise, surprise.  Also, apparently people can’t be bothered to type the phrase “.com”, because four of the Top 10 Rising Search Queries are website names:  MySpace, YouTube, TMZ, and Facebook.  See, what I mean is…typing “.com” after any of those phrases, and putting it in the URL address bar of the browser instead of the Google search box, would just deliver you to those sites you’re seeking–filtering out that pesky extra step of finding it in the search results.  I mean, with their supposed 200 Million users, you’d think MySpace would have pretty decent name recognition now…such that people don’t need to use Google to find MySpace.com.  But you’d be wrong. 

The rest of the list is a bit of a mix of the strange (”Club Penguin”, which is a sort of virtual penguin world for kids) and the predictable (”Transformers”).  I’m really suprised that “Keystone Blog” wasn’t on the list; maybe next year.