The late pop icon Michael Jackson was the king of Google's list of fastest-rising searches in 2009, which included social networking websites, a teenage vampire flick and US singer Lady Gaga.

Facebook came second on Google's "Zeitgeist" list, released on Tuesday by the search engine, followed by Facebook's Spanish-language counterpart Tuenti in third place and micro-blogging site Twitter.

The Turkish website Sanalika was fifth ahead of "New Moon," the title of the popular vampire book from the "Twilight" series that was made into a movie.

New York-born Lady Gaga was in seventh place ahead of Windows 7, dantri.com.vn and torpedo gratis.