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What people want (according to Google Suggest)

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Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

#5
Wow. I have a new appreciation for disambiguation as a competitive advantage. I know search queries are inexact, but I didn't realize that they might be entered billions and trillions of times

    130 how can i work with google 1150000000
Do they want to be employed by Google, learn about SEO, or be a supplier of Google's?

    166 how can i get some money 1020000000
Do they want to earn money, win money, or receive a wire transfer?

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

#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 are still left out of technology because they find services too complicated. Need for even simpler blogging, site creation, etc. platforms?"

I disagree with this view since it presumes people already know the major blogging platforms before they search. The search itself brings up Blogger and Wordpress as the first two hits which may have satisfied users.

Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)

#9
post #3

I found 46 how can i find my son 55 how can i get my son back very sad.

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.
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