Finding Friends Via Search Query Analysis

prostoalex writes "How many times have you met an interesting person, who happened to check out the same book in the library, or listen to the same music as you do? Researchers from University of Chicago suggest that it would be kinda cool if you could find like-minded people by analyzing the queries submitted to a Web search engine. Their PDF paper explains the research in more detail."

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I believe that our children would prefer THAT

[Bold Marauder]

instead of the perverts' utopia endorsed by the great-grandparent post. A little preching and a little spanking never hurt anyone. But the scars of child abuse are never outgrown. :~(

By the way, this is a christian nation. Settled by exiled christians who were looking for a place to escape persecution. That had nothing to do with renouncing their beliefs, which the reader can research for themselves by doing a google search for 'puritans'.