This article used Google autocomplete to find out what are the most common questions in different states.
And mine is “Who won the Civil War?” Totally makes sense, I’m afraid.
Feel free to say what you think of yours. Or whatever.
It’s not the “most common question per state.”
Rhode Island: “Did Jay-Z cheat on Beyonce? / Is John Snow alive?”
That sounds about right.
WA checking in. “Can Bernie win?”
Maybe they weren’t asking about the American Civil War.
Note that these kind of state maps are very … “tended”. It is incredibly easy to come up with a completely different set of 50 questions, each one meeting the criteria. These are basically attempts at humor disguised as data.
E.g., you know perfectly well that “What is the traffic like on the 5?” is going to be searched more by folks in CA than in other state. But that’s boooorrrrriiiing.
I love the range from “What is the meaning of life” (HI) to “When is Cinco de Mayo?” (WV)
Texas wants to know where in the hell the internet is. Of course.
Yep. I looked up a few random ones. The distinctions in some cases are extremely small; a couple states have apparently traded #1/#2 spots on certain searches just in the days since they did this.
Wait. People google fully formed questions?
Personally, I just spew some random letters into the search field, and let Google work out what I meant.
Michigan: “Is Mr. T dead?”
I don’t get it.
Hey, at least people in your state know how to open jars.
Wait. Are you saying people in other states don’t spend hours arguing about whether or not Mercury is in retrograde? What do you people do all day?
The implication apparently being Beyonce will kill Snow if she finds out he slept with her husband.
Holy shit! Alaska has the most reasonable people in America? Never would have expected that.
I don’t give a crap whether Bernie is vegan or not but at least his nipples aren’t sore.
My favorite: IDAHO: Is Ted Cruz the Zodiak Killer?
Sad: INDIANA: What is presidential? / What is Islam? / What is Judaism? / How many states are there? / What is communism? / What is Jupiter made of? / What is natural selection? / What is satire? / Do midgets have night vision? / Are aliens real? / Is Bigfoot real? / Is global warming real? / Is Bernie Sanders a democrat? / Was Clinton impeached? / What is the constitution? / What is the first amendment? / What is the second amendment? / How to be popular?
I’m ashamed to live here-- although, FTR, I have never Googled any of these things.
And my native state: NEW YORK: Am I bisexual? / Am I an alcoholic? / Am I a democrat? / Where my dogs at? / Is Cornell an Ivy League school? / What’s a millennial? / Who killed Biggie? / Who to invade next? / Who unfriended me? / How to meet women? / Who is Banksy? / When is Passover? / Is Mercury in retrograde? / Is wine gluten free? / How to ask for a raise? / Is Hillary Clinton left handed? / Is Bernie Sanders a communist?
Beats Indiana, but that’s about all I can say. Seriously “Where my dogs at?”
In Indiana’s defense, satire is difficult.
That’s a perfectly legitimate question. It must be somewhere, right? I’m more concerned about the fact that “how do you pick locks” is a common question in my state. Also “who moved my cheese” which might possibly be related to the lock-picking question.
Rather than make a new thread, here’s another interesting map of trends I stumbled on accidentally–this time, the most commonly misspelled words in Google searches.
The only thing I can think to make sense of “Leprechaun” is the higher Scotts-Irish population here in the north part of Arkansas. No clue why we’d have that in common with Utah.
Huh. Note that Alaska’s is “Hawaii.” As in, “It’s May and there’s still snow on my driveway — get me the hell out of here!”
Could have been Ohio, this year.