Posted on 01/27/2014 3:03:59 PM PST by onyx
Google's Autocomplete function remains a steady source of chuckles, disappointments, and unintentional insights.
Case in point:
pic.twitter.com/2kz40lBCOJ — Elle Reeve (@elspethrb) January 26, 2014
While by no means always a source of goodwill, Google Autocomplete also reminds us of what we—the royal Googling "we"— wish to know about the world around us. Take, for instance, our curiosities about the 2012 presidential candidates.
The same principle when applied to each American state yields a mosaic of obvious caricature and unexpected intrigue. This weekend, Amazing Maps released a recent map of the top Google Autocomplete query for each American state.
The formulation was: "Why is [state] so..." The results were...dazzling.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.com ...
I didn’t mean to imply that New Hampshire isn’t a wonderful state, what I meant was that New Hampshire, while not having a sales and income tax, still manages to accrue substantial taxes through real estate.
I love New Hampshire, but it isn’t perfect, and has changed very much in the last 20 to 30 years or so.
And you can smell the liberals in MA from there.
When I googled Massachusetts, it came up as windy.
“Why are Californians ...” comes up with: so weird, so rude, so fake, so liberal.
“Hillary Clinton is a ...” comes up with: a man, an idiot, awesome, a communist, a dyke.
If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.
Thanks!
(The Atlantic)
Google is an enemy enabler. BING it instead.
Actually, I hate both.
Is there another that you prefer?
How about startpage?
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