Of the billions of terms searched on Google, the three fastest-growing searches this year all had to do with community or sharing music, news or facts, according to the company’s 2005 year-end results released this week.

“Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit studying the social effects of the Internet. “That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.”

More people than ever searched Google this year for MySpace, the online community. That was followed by Ares, the file-sharing software, and Baidu, the Chinese search engine, the company says.

Google doesn’t release its top searches, only those that dramatically increased in number.

Monitoring what people are asking is a way to see what they’re interested in, Rainie said, adding that 60 million American adults use a search engine on a typical day.

“In the old days, the way to get this information was through polls or man-on-the-street interviews,” he said.

Dean Tsouvalas, who writes the “Lycos Daily 50″ column analyzing the top queries on the search engine Lycos, sees the year-end results as a slice of American life.

Hurricane Katrina was the most-searched-for news event on Lycos since 9/11.

“It not only gives us a pop culture barometer of what people are thinking about, but it’s also a snapshot in time,” Tsouvalas said.

Yahoo top searches:

1. Britney Spears

2. 50 Cent

3. Cartoon Network

4. Mariah Carey

5. Green Day

Lycos top searches:

1. Paris Hilton

2. Pamela Anderson

3. Britney Spears

4. Poker

5. Dragonball

6. Jennifer Lopez

7. WWE

8. Pokemon

9. Playstation

10. Hurricane Katrina

With the above results its proved, that Internet keeps its users sharing.