I have written on Google as a psychological indicator in Learning the Truths of Life from Google. And this cold morning, Dan Ariely reminded me about it in What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google (although I am unable to replicate his results completely). Anyway, I though I might give the”Google suggest machine” some obvious tests.
This should finally put to rest the myth about the so called “wisdom of the crowds”. The vast majority of people, the millions that trigger the “suggested” lists are morons, plus some of the descriptions found in the searches in no participial order. The only question about the differences between Bush and Obama – are they an “antichrist” first and an “idiot” second or visa-versa? And there is a total agreement about both American presidents being “hitlers”.
I am starting to think that people don’t actually search on Google, but they go to Google to vent, treat it is as confessional, a private psychiatrist. So what about Comrade Putin?
The frequency of Jewish references in many “leadership” searchers is rather amazing.
And how about something not as heavy and imperial. Something closer to home.

I knew it all along, men just want to be loved…
Further Reading:
Google Redesign from Concave to Convex
Photographers and Illustrators file Copyright Class Action against Google
Google Robots vs. Humanity