this was sad. i was googling "women need to..." and these popped up

[seabeyond]

women need to know their place
women need to shut up
women need to be dominated
women need to feel wanted


i had paused after "women need to..." and saw this. this may not be the right place for something so casual, but really, i am surprised what popped up as choices. this is what people (men) are going to. i am so computer illiterate and i dont know much about google, but doesnt it pop up what is searched the most?

[ellisonz]

1. Search engine optimization for cheapo magazines. n/t

[seabeyond]

3. really

you are talking to someone that knows NOTHING. what are you saying. that these are the stories in articles and magazines and not popular hits?

[ellisonz]

5. The way that works is...

...people search for something and so blogs/magazines/whatever try and use terms that are are popular like those you described above so that their pages appear at the top attracting traffic and revenue from advertisements...

There are many marketing/advertising companies that have offices dedicated to this sort of activity.

Ironically, for many terms DU actually does very well because we have so much traffic.

[MadrasT]

15. Ahhh, yes.

There is the SEO angle too. Good point.

[Kalidurga]

2. As far as I know what is searched the most is what comes up as a suggested search...

and after that what comes up at least for me is what I have actually searched for in the past.

[seabeyond]

4. so

leaving it open, the suggestions are what is often asked for. once i put in what i am looking for, the links are what i looked to in past? cause i assure you, i have never looked for sites that women should shut up, be dominated, or whatever the other one was.

[HubertHeaver]

16. Google is designed to be helpful or annoying, depending on your point of view.

I will use other search engines to get more useful results. "Start Page" and "Ixquick" are good choices.

[MadrasT]

14. Google says if you are signed in to Google

and have web history enabled, it remembers your previous searches. So that could affect results for some people.

As you type, Google's algorithm predicts and displays search queries based on other users' search activities. If you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, you might also see search queries from relevant searches that you've done in the past. In addition, Google+ profiles can sometimes appear in autocomplete when you search for a person's name. Apart from the Google+ profiles that may appear, all of the predicted queries that are shown in the drop-down list have been typed previously by Google users.

Autocomplete

[trotsky]

6. Try it with "men are such..."

Yes, Google is suggesting common searches.

[seabeyond]

7. wow... interesting. though the words lead to that.

some kind of insult. thank you, i get your point. makes me feel a tad better, lol. i guess. ah, well, that is sad too.

i dont think women need to.... should lead to the ones that popped up.

interesting

[seabeyond]

8. though, here are the men need to ....

men need to grow up
men need to man up
men need to ejaculate
men need to respect women quotes

[MadrasT]

11. Wow that isn't pretty either.

"Men are such.... " fools. babies. jerks. liars. beasts.

This makes me sad.

[seabeyond]

12. "This makes me sad." doesnt it when you know this is the diet we are feeding ourselves

thanks for getting it. it hit me that way also

[MadrasT]

9. Dang

I got those and the next ones were:

"women need to know about men"
"women need to be touched"
"women need to stay in the kitchen"

How autocomplete works
[link:http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106230|Google Autocomplete

As you type, Google's algorithm predicts and displays search queries based on other users' search activities.
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The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of all web users.

I wonder what "men need to..."?

(runs off to Google...)

"men need to grow up"
"men need to man up"
"men need to ejaculate"
"men need to respect women"
"men need to be needed"
"men need to cheat"
"men need to provide"

Hmmmmmmmmm.



Edit to add: LOL, we had the same idea at the same time.

[seabeyond]

10. Hmmmmmmmmm.

is right.

thanks for the explanation. that is clear now.

[MadrasT]

13. Both sets of autocompletes make me feel sad.

The "women" version and the "men" version.

[Tumbulu]

17. Makes me sad too....

my goodness, what a long journey towards any sort of dignity and respect for all....

[iverglas]

18. how to save yourself grief ;)

I use google literally hundreds of times a day for work. When autocomplete became compulsory, it just about drove me around the bend. I went off to google forums to complain, and found help. Someone provided an extension that defeats autocomplete.

Since I use google as my home page, this was easy; I just set it in Firefox to be:

http://www.google.ca/webhp?complete=0&hl=en

When I try to change the .ca to .com for you down there, the url gets converted to this:

https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en

i.e. it ads an s to the http. It's hard for me to test because google simply will not allow me to go to plain old http://www.google.com; it converts it to .ca no matter what I do. (I can get to .co.uk and .com.au and so on with no problem, just not .com.) So try that link with and without the s on the http and see what it does.

... I dunno, I've never bothered to fix my home page in IE to the no-auto-complete version, and it's giving me https://www.google.ca as my home page now; I'd never noticed an s there before. Ah. Is this because I'm signed in to gmail accounts in both browsers maybe ... and oh fuck, in IE (which I use only to have spare gmail accounts open, and I've just realized I don't even have to do that now, so bye bye IE very soon) I am now getting instant bloody search, too. What have I done ... ?!?

The ways of google are strange and mysterious, and I hate almost all of them ...


edit - aha, when I C&Ped the url for .com, it came out without the s on the http, so I guess that's just there when you're signed in to a google "product".

[seabeyond]

19. hi

did i tell you i am a when it comes to the whole computer thing,

good to see you