The REAL Top Internet Search Terms! *Warning Explicit Content*

In My Humble Opinion
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I’d like to start a debate that I think is very important in our day… Censorship!!

I just watched a great video on youtube that was done by a guy who calls himself ‘Bob the Secret Comedian’. He talks about Google and Yahoo censorship and how they don’t tell us the actual Internet Top Search Terms. Instead, they give us a ‘Disnified’ version.

You know how it’s usually Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, etc.? Well, if this guy is right, there’s a VERY different story to tell.

It’s also quite funny and well done.

What do you think?

Oh, and it does contain some bad words… so make sure you’re mature enough to handle it! :slight_smile:

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Some of the information was mildly amusing, but the obviously canned laughter makes me a bit suspicious of its accuracy.

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While not quite a poll, this is not quite a debate. I flipped a coin to see whether IMHO or MPSIMS would have to accept it, and IMHO lost.

[ /Moderating ]

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Wow, that guy is incredibly annoying. Couldn’t make it past 1 minute.

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Yeah, he was trying way too hard.

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Bob, is that you?

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I’m not sure “great” is really the word I’d use.

Highlights of the morning:
1a. I looked up “porn” on Google trends, and there’s been a spike in searches every Christmas (well, December, at least) since 2005, with a tiny one in 2004.
1b. “Sex” has a similar trend.

  1. “britney spears upskirt” got up to a relative ratio of almost 75 (i.e. searched 75 times more often than the average) in late 2006, when the “scandal” broke.

  2. “hot babes” is a far more popular search in Pakistan than anywhere else, and for some reason, it’s about four times as popular in Tagalog than in English.

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The search term “Google” beat out “Youporn” for 2008 on Google trends. But Youporn is more popular than Obama, and it’s really popular in Italy for some reason. “Sex” also beats “Youporn” for 2008.

This makes me question the accuracy of the OP’s video.

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I am not surprised by any of this. Google broke it’s “evil” rule some time ago, and they’re full of shit.

The bit about searching for Google.com in Google was hilarious.

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I get the impression that comes from people who mistakenly type “www.google.com” in the google toolbar instead of in the address bar. Looking at my own screen, that’s an easy mistake to make. Heck, I’ve got a google “find” bar (to find a phrase on the current page) and I often find myself typing things there meant for the google search bar.

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A find bar? Interesting. Can it do something that Ctrl+F can’t?

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Or people who just type “google” into the address bar on Firefox. When it doesn’t recognise something as a website, it automatically Google-searches it.

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As you type in the find bar’s text field, it tells you how many occurances of your text are on the page. If I want to find, say, “super” and start to type it out:

Find:s More than 100 matches (and all occurances of “s” get highlighted in yellow)

Find:su 11 matches (all occurances of “su” are highlighted)

Find:sup 2 matches (all occurances of “sup” are highlighted)

Find:supe 1 match

Plus there are “Previous” and “Next” buttons and a couple of Options. It’s handy at times, except when I type google search items into it.

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There’s a popular rock group in the Philippines called “Viva Hot Babes”. They sing, dance, and look exactly how you’d expect them to.

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Oh, wow. Thank you for explaining that.

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And, by default I think, does a “I’m Feeling Lucky” search, which automatically redirects you to the top hit.

So if you just type “google” in the address bar, you end up at www.google.com. Except, in the background, what it actually did is a search on Google for “google” and then took you to the top result, www.google.com.

Which is why it appears that so many people are searching Google for “google”, when they really aren’t. They’re just typing “google” in the address bar because www.google.com is more keystrokes for the same result.

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Heh. I just googled “Viva Hot Babes” and one of the results was for Myles Hernandez’s home page (or possibly a tribute page, it’s not immediately clear which). Anyway, I like the meta “Description” tag on the page (which shows up as the short description on Google’s search results):


<meta name="Description" content="Myles Hernandez is one ofthe original members 
of the Viva Hot Babes. Myles Hernandez has the best breast among the Viva Hot
Babes.">

I’m guessing that’s a tribute page, but I’m kind of hoping it’s Myles’ own site.

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I wonder which breast.

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Right. I think there must be an obvious reason for it. But are people also typing www.google.com into the search bar? That’s the impression I got from the video.

Whether you think the video is funny or not, I think it IS a great commentary on how pervasive censorship (of a certain kind) is in our society… and the hypocrisy of it all. I mean, it would be difficult to justify what we allow and don’t allow if we had an open debate about it.

It’s a difficult thing to admit that the most popular source of entertainment online is porn, especially when kids have unlimited access to everything as well. But is that the only reason? And is it hurting us as a society to deny it? Kind of like denying the problem of homelessness so that we never do anything constructive to help fix the problem.

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If you’re anti-censorship, how do you propose to “fix the problem” of porn without denying people access to information?