Google have released their year-end Zeitgeist showing what the world has been searching for. Shangzilla casts his eye over what Chinese netizens have been looking for - that is when they weren't hunting down wrongdoers.

1. 陈冠希 (Chén Guànxī, Edison Chen)
The contents of Edison Chen's hard-drive were the most popular search term. Shangzilla editor Dan Wasburnt refused to cash in on Edison-mania.


2. 奥运会开幕式 (Àoyùnhuì kāimùshì, Olympic opening ceremony)
Shangzilla thought that nothing of importance happened today, but we guess people were looking for this.

3. 四川地震 (Sìchuān dìzhèn, Sichuan earthquake)
A tragic day for the country. After several weeks of bad news, Shangzilla was hoping something funny would happen.


4. 不合格奶粉名单 (bù hégé nǎifěn míngdān, powdered milk scandal)
Now here was something genuinely to get upset about (unlike Edison Chen, where we just pretended to be outraged and forwarded each other sex pictures). Shangzilla concluded that breast was best


5. 艳照门 (yànzhàomén, "Sexy Photo-Gate")
Yes, its that enormous tool again. Shangzilla likes the Watergate-esque use of "门". At heart, he's a very cultured monster.


6. 画皮 (huàpí, Painted Skin)
The film didn't contain as much skin as promised, much to the disappointment of Dan Wasburnt.


7. 赤裸特工f.b.i (chìluǒ tègōng FBI, Naked Weapon FBI)
This female MySpace.cn blogger combined computer games and sex appeal to wow fans - but we think she's not as cute as JingJing carrying a gun.


8. 国足欢迎你 (guózú huānyíng nǐ, China football welcomes you)
This song and video spoofed the Olympic Song "Beijing Welcomes You" while making fun of the perennially useless Chinese football team. Chinese lyrics are here, sample "场上梦游是惯例,　场下才牛B" "on the field we are sleepwalking, off the field we are (unpleasant individuals)"


9. 刘翔退赛 (Liú Xiáng tuì sài, Liu Xiang withraws from competition)
Despite many shouts of JIAYOU!, local golden boy Liu Xiang dropped out of the Olympics.


10. 神七 (shénqī, Shenzhou 7)
One small step for China, one giant leap for mankind.


We hope you've enjoyed reading Shangzilla this year. We'll be back!

Editor Dan Wasburnt pulled off a clever double-bluff in a recent article for the popular Shangzilla.com blog on Friday afternoon. Dan explains "I headlined an article 'Dan Wasburnt loves pussy', knowing that world-weary websurfers would spot the double entendre, and expect to see a get an article about my cat Fluffykins. Instead, they got a big picture of a woman's vagina. LOL!!! NSFW!!!"

Wasburnt has been known to court controversy in the past, and will generally stop at nothing to put tits on the home page.

Shangzilla's millionaire managing editor Dan Wasburnt is to buy Hainan Island and turn it into a giant golf course, sources close to the Great Man report. Wasburnt has been researching his book "Par for China", a thriller of a book about golf, China, zombies, and much, much more which is available on Amazon.com right now.

The star of Wasburnt's book, Zhou Xunshu has had a mixed season, so Wasburnt decided to take matters into his own hands by buying Hainan Island and turning it into a private training ground for Xunshu. "The story will only be complete when Enlai wins the US Open", commented bushy-haired Wasburnt.

Wasburnt said he was not a really a fan of golf, but his previous book ideas, "Pair for China" (a hands-on study of increasing breast size amongst Chinese women) and "Scar for China" (a study of plastic surgery in Chinese cities) were both rejected by publishers.

Shangzilla editor Dan Wasburnt's latest article for popular website Shangzilla.com has nothing to do with naked photos of Edison Chen.

Washburnt noted however, that the article Net awash with naked pictures of Edison Chen and you was currently topping the most popular articles this month. Even shameless ripoffs of Shangzilla.com are filled with stories about Edison Chen.

"Since internet users are searching frequently for "Edison Chen photos" and "Edison Chen taking naked pictures" and "Edison Chen latest sex scandal pictures", commented Wasburnt, "I decided to mention Edison Chen as many times as I could in the article to ensure my article came first in Google, whenever anyone searched for Edison Chen"

"I might also mention other Hong Kong stars like Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, and Cecilia Cheung, who are also unrelated to my article. But closely related to Edison Chen", Wasburnt continued.

Wasburnt, whose hairstyle has rarely been compared to Edison Chen, once came last in an Edison Chen lookalike contest.

Wasburnt's next article, also about golf, is entitled "Latest pics in Edison Chen sex scandal".

Shangzilla editor Dan Wasburnt had to make a trip to the Huashan hospital after having a firecracker explode in his pants on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Wasburnt showed his ID and told the paramedics "I was burnt!" They replied "We can see that, but what's the problem?"

Sub-editor Kenneth Tangent, writing about the incident, said it was a terrible struggle not to use a number of humorous firework related puns in the article. "This really was a cracker of a story", Tangent commented, "it was almost irresistible to write that Dan's evening had gone with a bang!"

Shangzilla editor-in-chief Dan Wasburnt was disappointed to lose in a Dan Wasburnt impersonation contest held in Shanghai this weekend. Although Wasburnt excelled in the "writing articles for the Economist" round, penning an article entitled "Indonesia: at a crossroads", he lost out in the crucial swimsuit round to the editor of a rival, inferior, publication.

Wasburnt's colleague Kenneth Tangent said that Wasburnt was downcast after the contest. "As the real Dan Wasburnt, he was really hoping for a top-three finish. Maybe he should stick to Elvis contests."

Dan Wasburnt, 108, the playboy owner of popular Shanghai satirical blog Shangzilla awoke on Saturday morning with a terrible hangover after a heavy night at Bar Rouge. After enjoying one too many champagne cocktails, the thought of penning a long, serious article was too much to handle so Wasburnt decided to go with the old standby of tasteful nudity.



"She's, like, famous or something. Maybe she has an aunt from Shanghai" reasoned Wasburnt.

Popular satirical blog Shangzilla will use any old excuse to put women's breasts on the home page, according to editor Dan Wasburnt. "Whether it's Hairong Tiantian (海容天天) getting her assets out for some performance art, a body painting festival in Lhasa, or a a sex expo in Pudong, we've discovered that – to sum it up in three words – sex sells"

Wasburnt added "Of course we'll always have some kind of human interest story to go with it, but we know most of our readers will just head straight for the image slideshow."

This blog would never stoop to such levels.