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Google, like most other search engines, tries to guess what users are searching for even as the users type their queries. These guesses are partly based on prior user searches, so they can be telling look into the popular conscience. Here, for a query begun "who," Google offers "who is barack obama." Hmm. What do the Google searchers wonder about Hillary?
9:24 AM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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There used to be a good one when looking up Dennis Kucinich's name. The third suggestion down was for his wife Elizabeth.
Now it's his height and UFOs.
It must have been Richard Cohen of the Washington Post, who just the other day said we don't know this "fog of a man." [www.washingtonpost.com]
I am overjoyed to see that "Who is the Stig" tops the list.
"who to vote for?" looks like a lot of people would prefer google with a magic 8ball format
Many Republicans use Google.
Good to see the "Who is Ron Paul?" and "G(F)oogle Ron Paul" banners on his crazy blimp aren't doing jack shit.
Wrong... #3 result
My results:
1) Who is the stig
2) Who is barrack obama
3) Who is ron paul
Some say he's a MI6 experiment gone wrong, others say he a clone of former Prime Minister DNA... All we know is that he's called the stig.
I'm so happy that the stig made this list... oh how my wife hates BBC America.
slightly unfair comparision. Interestnigly, typing in Barak as you do Hillary bring up lots of questions about his religion.
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