# Please help me with a simple research project: 3 minutes of your time, max. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810 "2018-06-27T01:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/41 "2018-06-27T19:38:04Z")
restaurants near 2415 mcgavock pike ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/42 "2018-06-27T20:06:15Z")
Searching from Portland, OR I got…restaurants near 2415 mcgavock pike. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/43 "2018-06-27T20:16:13Z")
nothing. no autocomplete. ETA: are people forgetting to leave a space before the 5? ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/44 "2018-06-27T20:19:17Z")
no autocomplete as well. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/45 "2018-06-27T20:20:25Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > nothing. no autocomplete. > > ETA: are people forgetting to leave a space before the 5? I believe you are supposed to put the space _after_ the 5-Try again. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/46 "2018-06-27T20:43:37Z")
restaurants near 2415 mcgavock pike ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/47 "2018-06-28T01:55:43Z")
restaurants near 241 east 24th street restaurants near 24153 restaurants near 2415 mcgavock pike ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/48 "2018-06-28T02:02:48Z")
Yeah, me too. This is weird! All over the world there is only one street with a 2415 with a restaurant? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/49 "2018-06-28T03:25:11Z")
Thanks to all who have participated. There’s no need for new entries, if you happen to read this post before following the instructions in the OP. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Where did you eat? Mission BBQ, a fast food-style chain last night, because we had driven eight hours and were looking for something quick and close. Tonight it was the other end of the spectrum: the House of Cards, a very upscale downtown restaurant with table-side magicians and a magic show several times a night. It was great fun and the food was excellent. The prices are high, but taking the entertainment into account, the evening was a good deal. (Except for the parking, near the restaurant, but not associated with it, which was $30 for four hours!) > [@snfaulkner](#): > > Of course, these results don’t mean they _aren’t_ listening to you… Good point. We are currently conducting an experiment on that topic by talking, in the presence of our devices, about unusual subjects entirely unrelated to us that we haven’t in any way written about online, at Web sites, in e-mail, etc. So far the results are negative. To which my wife replies, “Maybe they’re on to us.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/50 "2018-06-28T03:43:04Z")
FYI, here’s a podcast about the common perception that [“Facebook is listening to us.”](https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/109-facebook-spying) It touches on the advanced technology that makes this apparent magic happen, and provides plausible explanations for the perceived coincidences, even though the hosts don’t seem entirely to accept them as the truth. I’m disappointed that they didn’t find a technologist who could have explained how completely unlikely it is (IMHO) that all our devices (especially cell phones, whose data use is closely monitored) could be listening to us all the time and sending back data for this purpose without it being detected by anyone. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/51 "2018-06-28T04:09:49Z")
Same as snfaulkner and most other people. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/52 "2018-06-28T15:19:06Z")
I think it must just be the most commonly searched “item” that begins with 2415. Even after just typing “2415” and then a space in google, the first suggested “fill” is 2415 mcgavock pike ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810/53 "2018-06-28T15:22:36Z")
Posted without reading any other psots here. I only got one response through autocomplete: restaurants near 2415 mcgavock pike [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-a-simple-research-project-3-minutes-of-your-time-max/816810.md?page=2)