Monday, January 25, 2010

What Google tells you about humans


'You know how Google sometimes “predicts” what you might be searching for by giving you a little drop down menu of suggested search queries?' scientist Dan Ariely wrote on his blog recently. 'These suggestions, of course, are based on what other users frequently search. So I tried teasing out some gender differences. Look at the pictures.' Isn't that a beautiful example of unintended use of Google?
UPDATE: Want to try it yourself? Take this elegant tool.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nederland blinkt weer uit in het macabere. Wilden 349.000 hun vriend verrassen. 224.000 wilden toch liever de vriend verassen. Google: "hoe kan ik mijn vriend ".

Anonymous said...

There is a great blog that deals with exactly this. It's called Autocomplete Me. You might really like it.
www.autocompleteme.com

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