Sunday, January 26, 2014

What Google Autocomplete Says About Your State

From the Atlantic Wire:

Google Autocomplete Embarrasses Us (and Our States) Again

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Google's Autocomplete function remains a steady source of chuckles, disappointments, and unintentional insights.... 

...While by no means always a source of goodwill, Google Autocomplete also reminds us of what we—the royal Googling "we"— wish to know about the world around us. Take, for instance, our curiosities about the 2012 presidential candidates.

The same principle when applied to each American state yields a mosaic of obvious caricature and unexpected intrigue. This weekend, Amazing Maps released a recent map of the top Google Autocomplete query for each American state.

The formulation was: "Why is [state] so..." The results were...dazzling....MORE