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What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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amirmc wrote: post #7

A second best method is to think hard of what problems other people might have that you can solve. Let's do [this] by seeing what people are searching on the internet That's an interesting idea and I found the results intriguing. However, the search results themselves also need to be taken into account. For example on the search term "How can I have a blog" . The author's opinion is... "These suggest that many people…

Very good point, I agree. However, I also meant that even the way the questions are formulated "how can I do a blog", "how can I blog on facebook" betray a lack of basic understanding of these technologies. Perhaps not only simpler platforms are needed, but better offline education about these topics as well (via school, traditional media, etc.)

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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154 how can i get more facebook friend

180 how can i get fans on facebook

Maybe someone should create lots of fake profiles to 1) sell friend requests to losers who want to pad their friend list 2) sell fans for people's pages

EDIT: Actually, maybe you can sign up other Facebook users to sell themselves as friends/fans and take a cut. I'm not sure how would you would track it though.

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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Post by amirmc »

lkozma wrote: post #11
amirmc wrote: post #7

A second best method is to think hard of what problems other people might have that you can solve. Let's do [this] by seeing what people are searching on the internet That's an interesting idea and I found the results intriguing. However, the search results themselves also need to be taken into account. For example on the search term "How can I have a blog" . The author's opinion is... "These suggest that many people…

Very good point, I agree. However, I also meant that even the way the questions are formulated "how can I do a blog", "how can I blog on facebook" betray a lack of basic understanding of these technologies. Perhaps not only simpler platforms are needed, but better offline education about these topics as well (via school, traditional media, etc.)

I'd say that language barriers also play a role. I've met plenty of educated, non-native, english speakers who would say "How can I do a blog".

That queries display a lack of understanding shouldn't be too surprising. I suspect people often search Google when they don't know about a topic. If my first search were "How can I do a blog", my second may well be "What are the differences between, Blogger and Wordpress".

If people are asking about blogging on Facebook I'd be interested to know what they learned from the results of the search. i.e has their understanding increased? If so, then I'd argue we don't need further education.

Overall, I'm suggesting that perhaps Google is already solving these people's problems by connecting them with answers (to some extent).

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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Post by masklinn »

igravious wrote: post #9
IgorPartola wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if at least some of the time #55 refers more to getting him back mentally, as in back to the state before puberty hit. #46 is indeed very sad.

No, it's in all likelihood the the parent-son bond has been broken and the parent would like to fix that. They are both very sad, and no reference to daughters in the list? Sons may stray further or abandon their parents more than daughters.

> No, it's in all likelihood the the parent-son bond has been broken and the parent would like to fix that

I'd have thought of a divorce gone bad, and a father barred from seeing his son.

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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Post by Tichy »

what wrote: post #12

154 how can i get more facebook friend 180 how can i get fans on facebook Maybe someone should create lots of fake profiles to 1) sell friend requests to losers who want to pad their friend list 2) sell fans for people's pages EDIT: Actually, maybe you can sign up other Facebook users to sell themselves as friends/fans and take a cut. I'm not sure how would you would track it though.

There was a company who did that, I think months or years ago. Not sure if they still operate.
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