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The World... and Google

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Who's Googling what? MSNBC and Google says...
Sex, Nazi and burrito: Who Googles what?
Survey determines what subjects Web surfers like searching for
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Updated: 8:54 a.m. MT Oct 17, 2007
BERLIN - Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's most frequent searchers for Web sites using the keyword "sex" on Google search engines, according to statistics provided by that company.

Germany, Mexico and Austria were world's top three searchers of the word "Hitler" while "Nazi" scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the "Google Trends" Web site showed.

Chile also came in first place searching for the word "gay," followed by Mexico and Colombia.
Is it a stereotype to assume what's being Googled by people in different countries? Well... you decide!

The top searchers for other keywords were as follows (in order from first to third place):

"Jihad" - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan
"Terrorism" - Pakistan, Philippines, Australia
"Hangover" - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
"Burrito" - United States, Argentina, Canada
"Iraq" - United States, Australia, Canada
"Taliban" - Pakistan, Australia, Canada
"Tom Cruise" - Canada, United States, Australia
"Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
"Homosexual" - Philippines, Chile, Venezuela
"Love" - Philippines, Australia, United States
"Botox" - Australia, United States, United Kingdom
"Viagra" - Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
"David Beckham" - Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico
"Kate Moss" - Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden
"Dolly Buster" - Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia
"Car bomb" - Australia, United States, Canada
"Marijuana" - Canada, United States, Australia
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Google Trends is a wonderful thing, especially when you find out where bizarre queries are locating from.
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What, us Aussie's aren't in the top three for hangover? Lies and slander.
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Yes! We're number one in marijuana!

Now if only we could legalize it so I can start up a pot farm...
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loomer wrote:What, us Aussie's aren't in the top three for hangover? Lies and slander.
Because you have too strong of a hangover to type it properly and the report doens't list results for "hngver"
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The countries topping the list for Viagra have some explaining to do.
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Hey, Italians have a reputation to live up to!
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"David Beckham" - Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico
If I didn't read the BBC's website, I'd have no idea who he is.
"Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
I'd say Canada has some explaining to do as well. :)
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Glocksman wrote:
"Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
I'd say Canada has some explaining to do as well. :)
Not much of an explanation is required; there must be a lot of fans of bad music in our country. But at least we are sexually functional :D
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Damn, the Philippines tops Homosexual Love. I always knew my country was gay.
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interestingly, my country tops the search for some porn star searches:D
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aerius wrote:Yes! We're number one in marijuana!

Now if only we could legalize it so I can start up a pot farm...
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Chile also came in first place searching for the word "gay," followed by Mexico and Colombia.
Seeing as the various Latin countries culturally have rampant machismo and homophobia hangups (to the point where a lot of AIDS programmes can't use the word 'gay' but instead use 'men who have sex with men' just to get people not to dismiss it out of hand), I find this deliciously and hilariously ironic.

It's about as good as such repressed and repressive countries as India and Egypt having the top spots for sex.
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My favorite is still goat sex. Apparently people in Pakistan just love the goat sex.
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I just Google Trended the most disgusting thing I could thin of and well...Scat Porn, seriously Ireland, I'm having a hard time believing I'm descended from you lot.
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Darth Wong wrote: Not much of an explanation is required; there must be a lot of fans of bad music in our country. But at least we are sexually functional :D
We are too, it's just, er, we all have a lot of stock in Pfizer we need to check. Daily. When we want sex.
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Darth Wong wrote:The countries topping the list for Viagra have some explaining to do.
I'm reminded of an episode of Scrubs dealing with boner pills ...
Elliot: Oh, get this. He doesn't even have erectile dysfunction. I mean, why would you take those drugs if you didn't need them?

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Elliot: That can't be true.

Cox: [Whistling] Everyone. Would you go ahead and close your eyes for a second? Great. Now, would all the men in the room who've tried Mr. Happy pills go ahead and grab your fork and bang your glass. [The cafeteria is filled with the sound of banging.] Thank you! [The banging stops, except for one lone man.]
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Or as House would say: Everyone lies.
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Cox: [Whistling] Everyone. Would you go ahead and close your eyes for a second? Great. Now, would all the men in the room who've tried Mr. Happy pills go ahead and grab your fork and bang your glass. [The cafeteria is filled with the sound of banging.] Thank you!
Well, at least they're capable of banging something.
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Let's see, Venezuela shows up in for three words.

Homosexual:
[img=http://www.lambdavenezuela.org/images/band_gay_vzla.gif[/img]

David Beckham:
Football is becoming very popular in Venezuela as of late, especially because the America's cup was just hosted there. We built some pretty awesome stadiums for it, including a five star one. Since David Beckham is football's biggest star, I'm not surprised we show-up as googling him a lot.

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Stupid tags...

I forgot to mention, "homosexual" is said spelled exactly the same in both English and Spanish.
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loomer wrote:What, us Aussie's aren't in the top three for hangover? Lies and slander.
Aussies don't need no stinkin' internet for hangover cures. Everyone knows that you get your first hangover at 16, while you're still living with your parents, so you just roll over, groan, and look miserable all morning until a friendly older relative gives you some orange juice and vegemite, and then suddenly you're running marathons again. Well, watching the cricket in any case.
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Darth Wong wrote:The countries topping the list for Viagra have some explaining to do.
Nay! When we British men get old and these physical things become a problem we don't give up because we're so... MENTALLY virile that we just keep doing it! Even if it means putting something inside of us to HELP us get hard...
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