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Looking at Google Suggest and how people phrase their searches.

There are some remarkable contrasts, Slate found, between "dumb" searches and "smart" ones. People who start their search "how 2" are more likely to search "how 2 get pregnant" or "how 2 grow weed." People who start their search "how one might" are more likely to search "how one might discover a new piece of music" or "how one might account for the rise of andrew jackson in 1828."

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Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. We don't lie to Google. Period. We type in what we're thinking -- good, bad, and ugly. There's probably no piece of information that would better show what's on someone's mind than their stream of searches.

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Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches

5 September 2010 02:00pm UTC • 88 views • 2 comments

Tagged with google, psychology, interesting

2 comments

1. The Anonymous Poppy

   16 September 2010 02:12am UTC

   Ha! I love the suggestions for "you is": "you is trolling," "you is a hoe [sic]," "you is my hot rabbit" (??), and then: "you is a pronoun."

2. Peon Peetie

   19 September 2010 06:56am UTC

   Hahahaha that was a good catch, poppy!

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