A Peek Into the Google

A number of people sent in the most recent story from the NYTimes (reg yada yada) from a reporter who visited the Google-land. Interesting story, no real information though, but the ability to see what people are thinking about and interested in is pretty cool.

Comments

alike?

[tanveer1979]

"Stare at Live Query long enough, and you feel that you are watching the collective consciousness of the world stream by. "

Its amazing that most people of the world search for similar things, irrespective of language! Good they put filters.... otherwise a normal visitor would be shocked that most of the world wants naked ladies.

Re:alike?

[newsdee]

a normal visitor would be shocked that most of the world wants naked ladies.

Why? Isn't that kind of, you know, evolutionarily genetic?

Re:alike?

[The J Kid]

Good they put filters....

Yeah, you have to look at it encoded, but I just see brunet, red-head, wet teen.....

Re:Privacy issues with google

[rc27]

Searches are logged by time of day, originating I.P. address (information that can be used to link searches to a specific computer), and the sites on which the user clicked. Let's hope John Ashcroft isn't reading this.

Re:Privacy issues with google

[Daniel Dvorkin]

The first rule of Google is ... you don't talk about Google.

Women have no taste!!!!!

[jonr]

Looking at the 2001 Zeitgeist I see disturbing trend:
Top women searches:
Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna & Aaliyah.
And top men searches:
Nostradamus, Bin Laden, Enimen, Michael Jackson & Howard Stern.
Is beard in?

Great Google Searches

[Maddog Batty]

Google Searches #1

OK so this is a bit off topic but I found the following searches on google rather interesting:

gfasd: 36 matches
fgasd: 24 matches
adfsfds: 10 matches
sdfassdf: 6 matches
fsdaasdf: 4 matches

So what are these searches? Well, just jam your fingers on the keyboard and do a search on that. Most people jam their fingers in the same place (left hand, middle row) and if enough people fill in web pages with garbage then matches are bound to be found. The surprise is the number of times this works.

Google Searches #2

Try using Google with the following links:
Swedish Chef
Elmer Fudd
Pig Latin
Klingon
H4xor (the /. favourite)

Re:Great Google Searches

[Ripplet]

Google even corrects your spelling!

I tried

"sdggfsdf"

And got:

Your original search: sdggfsdf returned zero results.
The alternate spelling: sdfgsdf returned the results below.

With 634 matches! Some of them in Russian!

I couldn't help myself..

[insac]

I had to... My first Google query after having seen this article has been "mind your own business :-)"

Re:Hey Taco

[sg_oneill]

Isn't it scary that one of the most powerfull computer clusters in the world spends half its time looking for pr0n.
I remember once being a little..... erm.. drunk, and amusing myself in a uni computer lab having altavista , hotbot, yahoo and excite all simultaneously searching for "sausage politics". It struck me as rather bizare having the finest computer dataminers inthe world all simultaneously searching for left-wing sausages. self abuse hey? *hICK!*

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Google and "First Post"

[Anonymous Coward]

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