What teenage people want.
What people want (according to Google Suggest)
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#22>People who search in "how can i ..." type of questions are probably not a representative sample of the whole population. My guess is that they are less tech-savvy users on average.
Hmm... I dunno. I search this way all the time. Mainly because I assume a lot of other people do as well and, more importantly, it works. Am I the only one?
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#23>People who search in "how can i ..." type of questions are probably not a representative sample of the whole population. My guess is that they are less tech-savvy users on average. Hmm... I dunno. I search this way all the time. Mainly because I assume a lot of other people do as well and, more importantly, it works. Am I the only one?
I am curious also, I was just guessing, I hope I didn't insult anyone. For topics where you can expect to find the exact same question on Q&A sites and forums this is a good approach. It seems though that people who are not familiar with how search engines work often type in questions, as if they are asking an oracle.
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#24Many of the questions that confused the author are down to language or cultural issues I think.
A "C Form" is a common name for a tax form in several countries, including India. Also short for concessional form.
CA is likely Chartered Accountant, an important accountancy qualification in several countries.
How can I get office/windows/etc for free: If you're new on the internet, it's going to be difficult to understand how such expensive software is ubiquitous. Office in particular costs 6 months salary in many places of the world (G8 countries: can you imagine spending $20k on an office suite?) Plus of course there are both valid, and copyright-infringing methods of getting these products for free.
How can I view a street? Google Street View - a valid question if you've seen/heard of it but don't have the name.
how can i copyright a website: It seems almost no-one understands copyright well, and copyright notices are everywhere on websites (despite copyright being automatic)
how can i get the new facebook 2010: related to phased rollouts of new features, or some scam or hoax, or both.
what version of windows 7/ office 2007 do I have? They mean which edition, Basic/Ultimate etc. Not a stupid question at all.
how can i start share business?: How can I start investing in stocks/shares.
how can i tell how tall my son will be: It's actually easy to calculate a fairly accurate prediction from the parent's height, and height is pretty important in many cultures.
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#25>People who search in "how can i ..." type of questions are probably not a representative sample of the whole population. My guess is that they are less tech-savvy users on average. Hmm... I dunno. I search this way all the time. Mainly because I assume a lot of other people do as well and, more importantly, it works. Am I the only one?
I am curious also, I was just guessing, I hope I didn't insult anyone. For topics where you can expect to find the exact same question on Q&A sites and forums this is a good approach. It seems though that people who are not familiar with how search engines work often type in questions, as if they are asking an oracle.
WOW... I believe this is highly inaccurate. Maybe in the old days was it naive to type a question into a search engine. (until ask jeeves came along) but with the rise of Q-A sites this is a very valid way to find a question that has been asked before. Certainly it depends on the question you are asking but I think it's quite a false generalization at this point.
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#26I wonder if mining it regionally and seeing the unique searches will tell us more about a culture than years of on the ground anthropological observations. Of course, it assumes that people are kinda well off in the country and a sizable majority uses the internet.
Further, this is something that networks would kill for. Most people google the news they want to read. So, they could manage their editorial content better with this.
This data can have so many awesome uses...
P.S. - This comparison between Google USA and Google India is kinda right on the dot http://i.imgur.com/FPk2M.jpg Everyone I know uses a computer for one thing; porn and more porn. I think that this is a symptom of an extremely sexually repressed society. [edit: I am sorry if that sounded like a generalization, but what I intended to say is that from first hand experience and abnormally large amount of people are fixated over porn. It's kinda understandable with teenagers, but grown men and women? I know this stuff since I am sorta an unofficial tech support, so I come upon GBs of stuff that rattles the hell out of me. It might be personal bias, but I genuinely think that porn is more prevalent here due to social norms than a more liberal country kinda like Victorian england.]
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#27I wonder if mining it regionally and seeing the unique searches will tell us more about a culture than years of on the ground anthropological observations. Of course, it assumes that people are kinda well off in the country and a sizable majority uses the internet. Further, this is something that networks would kill for. Most people google the news they want to read. So, they could manage their editorial content bett…
Did you make sure personalization in Google India was disabled for you? Just Joking ;)
I do think your statement about porn is an extreme generalization but the differences in suggestions are very interesting.
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#28I found 46 how can i find my son 55 how can i get my son back very sad.
What google is actually showing me is much more sad:
http://i.imgur.com/sjGqf.png
It matches what is shown to me on http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=how%2... (note that it is NOT sorted by the number of queries)
I didn't search or visit anything related to these searches, and even have bocked google analytics tracker. Yet it's all the same on all my browsers, even those which were never ever logged in my google account.
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#29This is like the serious version of http://failblog.org/tag/autocomplete-me/
My favorite recently was "Do Not I...(ron clothes on body)"
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