Is there a God? Is the world going to end in 2012? Is he the one? Is the iPhone coming to Verizon? Or maybe most importantly, is Michael Jackson dead?
Since Google has updated its home page to include search suggestions as you type, I’ve been curious about how people pray to the Google gods. To understand this, I simply started a search query with “is a” and recorded what came up, then went through each letter of the alphabet, to end up with 260 of the top questions that the Google Suggest feature provides. Yes there’s lots of other ways to ask questions, but this is how I did it for now.
In our connected society, a working knowledge of virtually any subject is a search phrase away. But, I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that there is a predominance of pop culture trivia around gender uncertainty, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, or even whether someone is alive or dead. There’s also undercurrents of guilt and confession, asking questions into the void that most people probably wouldn’t even ask their doctor. And of course a bunch of ridiculous and funny nonsense I would have never thought anyone would ask.
Perhaps looking at these eternal questions helps us answer: is Google making us stupid?
Look no further, we have allowed ourselves to be sheep-led. Brainwashed to the hilt sadly..
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