Friday, March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009: A penny for your Google Suggest
On ifMUD today someone pointed out the Google Suggest results for typing "I am extremely" into Google. Most definitely censored on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
The genius thing about Google Suggest, after you get over the fact that there's a pop-up drop-down (all-around) menu showing up on your clean Google page, is that it's this wonderful snapshot of just what people are thinking and what they care about. Turns out people care about the darndest things:
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- "I am quite" - I don't know which is funnier: "I am quite the thong wearer" or "I am quite satisfied with the condition of the item and price." The former is funny because it's so erudite about skimpy underwear, but the latter is funny because you get the impression this is just the new, long-winded version of something like "Thank you!" And there are MORE results for this.
- "I'm not very" - Only one result: "I'm not very sociable." If you're typing unfinished sentences into Google - or, for that matter, blogging about it - that is not all that surprising.
- "How do I remove antivirus 2009" returns more results than "How do I know if I'm pregnant."
- "I love myself" returns far more results than "I love my wife," "I love my husband," "I love my mom," "I love my sister," etc. We're talking 131,000,000 to 40,000,000.
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