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Category: Google
Posted on: January 11, 2010 8:57 PM, by SciencePunk
Inspired by this post, I thought I'd see what else Google knows about our collective psyche, based on its suggested searches. Result? Google knows you're scared of Chinese people.
At first I thought it was a one-off, but then I found this, dating back to February 2009.
Ironic, really, as the Chinese are afraid of Google.
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My Google knows I am extremely terrified of Canadians.
Posted by: becca | January 11, 2010 10:33 PM
Lonely beyonce lyrics? What the heck is a lonely beyonce?
Posted by: Greg Laden | January 11, 2010 11:21 PM
Hilarious.
"I Like..."
"...turtles"
"...to fork myself"
I wonder if enough of us do a Google search for
"exoplanets tapdancing"
will that appear as a Google suggestion?
Posted by: Vince Whirlwind | January 12, 2010 2:57 AM
Where does ...
Miley Cyrus live?
There are apparently a lot of cyberstalkers out there.
Posted by: csrster | January 12, 2010 12:02 PM
I believe the original entry of that appeared as an article on Christwire (and if you're familiar with their work, you know you're in for a good time).
Posted by: EMJ | January 12, 2010 9:59 PM
"is it..."
Lawks. People must be asking these questions.
More specifically: "is it legal..."
"...to own a monkey in the uk"
I've always wondered that!
Posted by: rob | January 13, 2010 1:14 PM
Hilarious.
"I Like..."
"...turtles"
"...to fork myself"
I wonder if enough of us do a Google search for
"exoplanets tapdancing"
will that appear as a Google suggestion?
hehe
Posted by: sikiş | January 14, 2010 8:30 PM
For me [located in Denmark]the first gogle search suggestion is:
"I'm afraid of americans" [31 300 000 hits] :-)
Mind you, it IS apparently a reference to some Bowie lyrics, but still...
Posted by: TDL | January 20, 2010 11:17 PM
Hi Frank,
I know it's off topic. Wondered what you made of this;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7036451/Non-stick-chemical-linked-to-thyroid-disease.html
Tom.
Posted by: Tom Walker | January 24, 2010 2:09 AM
I'm worried... if I put in 'is it' into google I get
1)is it christmas
2)is it wrong to sleep with your sister
3)is it better to be mixed race
4)is it wrong to sleep with your cousin
seriously, how many people are googling is it wrong to sleep with your sister? (10.4M results apparently...)
Posted by: hoots_mon | February 1, 2010 1:05 PM
"dont be evil" google
Posted by: wiki | February 18, 2010 7:22 AM
Thats because of the google incident, how China was going to ban google search and google products (android) in the country. This is how Google responds, by being tasteless.
Posted by: jim | January 12, 2011 4:29 AM