Walsingham Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) I was just pondering the Google analytics. The top hits, almost every month are celebrities. This had been going to be a thread about how society is doomed. Then I had a thought: Is this just poor quality analytics? If I want to know about nutrition I might put in any search query, and someone else might put in something else. "How many calories in..." or "How bad is fried chicken..." or "RDA of vitamin b" But if I want to know about a celebrity I put in their name and just their name. Consequently, all the celebrity searches get high rankings. But even if health is the key in people's minds, then that interest is subdivided and appears lower down the rankings. Edited January 17, 2014 by Walsingham "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) Unfortunately, I think it's the doom of our society more than anything else http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full Edited January 17, 2014 by ShadySands 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) You'd also have to consider, if I googled a celb, am I trying to find out information about the celebrity or their latest product or even a past product? If I see the trailer for Wolf of Wall Street and can't remember its name but remember that DiCaprio is in it or that Scorsese directed it...well I'm going to search their name. If I see a movie in passing that has Lon Chaney, Jr in it, I might search for Lon Chaney Jr so I can open IMDB, Wikipdedia, and any fan sites in various tabs. Also how many searches are made in a day? If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me? Also if I search for Rhianna and accidentally close the search and search again and the browser crashes and I open it again and search again for Rhianna, and then link to site but its not a good site, so I hit google again and search again...well that's a lot of searches that might be something simple like trying to find the name of a song I heard on the radio and not an obsessive search for news on Rhianna or pictures of her on vacation falling out of her bikini top. Or something. Edited January 17, 2014 by Amentep 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Also if I search for Rhianna and accidentally close the search and search again and the browser crashes and I open it again and search again for Rhianna, and then link to site but its not a good site, so I hit google again and search again...well that's a lot of searches that might be something simple like trying to find the name of a song I heard on the radio and not an obsessive search for news on Rhianna or pictures of her on vacation falling out of her bikini top. It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Also how many searches are made in a day? If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me? Kang the Conqueror is always the most important. It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol If the celeb in question is sexy, upwards of 75%. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 by the way, did you hear Johnny Depp got engaged to Amber Heard (naked)? Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 by the way, did you hear Johnny Depp got engaged to Amber Heard (naked)? Typical. How come it works for him? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Who is Amber, and how did she hear nakedness? I've seen it but never heard it. Jokes supplied by Shoreditch Graveyard, please rebury once used. 2 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 (edited) She's also bi-sexual, is Texan and likes guns. Poor old Johnny Depp, eh? Edited January 18, 2014 by Monte Carlo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Also how many searches are made in a day? If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me? Kang the Conqueror is always the most important. Indeed. Take that Immortus! It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol If the celeb in question is sexy, upwards of 75%. Are 90% of results still photoshop fakes though...? I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The only reasons I Google a "famous celeb" are: 1-I saw them in a movie and I want to know what other work they've done because I either know I've seen them before and can't place where I've seen them before, or they impressed me and I just want to see more of their work. 2-I'm trying to look up a film but I can't remember the name of the film, but do remember who the big star was. 3-I want to know how to spell their hard-to-spell name so I can cut and paste it into something I'm writing. 4-I'm really bored and a funny YouTube video led me to wonder who the heck is this person/group/whatever that the 'net is poking fun with 5-they're really handsome and I just want a wallpaper of their gorgeous mug for my desktop. Other than that, I don't pay much attention to celeb news. Course, when I was 13, I would've loved to have the internet to stalk read about my celeb crushes. Sadly all I had was the monthly periodicals at the library and a Xerox machine to make fuzzy blk & wht copies of articles, using a lot of nickels. The stone ages, man, the stone ages. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I should start searching for them, I have no idea who any of these people are! Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshugger Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 She's also bi-sexual, is Texan and likes guns. Poor old Johnny Depp, eh? Hubba-Bubba! "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 The only reasons I Google a "famous celeb" are: 1-I saw them in a movie and I want to know what other work they've done because I either know I've seen them before and can't place where I've seen them before, or they impressed me and I just want to see more of their work. 2-I'm trying to look up a film but I can't remember the name of the film, but do remember who the big star was. 3-I want to know how to spell their hard-to-spell name so I can cut and paste it into something I'm writing. 4-I'm really bored and a funny YouTube video led me to wonder who the heck is this person/group/whatever that the 'net is poking fun with 5-they're really handsome and I just want a wallpaper of their gorgeous mug for my desktop. Other than that, I don't pay much attention to celeb news. Course, when I was 13, I would've loved to have the internet to stalk read about my celeb crushes. Sadly all I had was the monthly periodicals at the library and a Xerox machine to make fuzzy blk & wht copies of articles, using a lot of nickels. The stone ages, man, the stone ages. I think I can relate to most of these points. Except possibly not giving a damn about the entertainment industry these days. Bands come and go, one hit wonders come and go, movies gets advertised and I don't remember the name (much less watching anything, not even youtube of them). I guess there really is something about the age thing. Maybe it's the comfort of familiarity that I return to the "oldies" when listening to music or the rare occasion where I can sit through an entire movie on the DVD player. Point in case, I keep hearing *about* this Biber guy, but I don't think I've ever heard *him*. Same thing about this young girl, what's her name that keep ending up in court with drug/alcohol issues. It's almost like a completely alien world to me. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Who is Amber, and how did she hear nakedness? I've seen it but never heard it. If you were in a dark room and heard a sort of breathy exhalation, and then the sound of satin falling. Surely that would be the sound of nakedness. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
213374U Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Without knowing the internal workings, I doubt we'll ever know if it's a fail on their part, or humanity's. And considering how expensive big data analysis is, it probably falls under "trade secret". However, # of comments on news sites depending on the subject would seem to reinforce your point (no I have not actually taken a statistical approach, just my appreciation). I remember seeing a scumbag Steve pic that went like "has the power of the greatest information highway ever devised at his fingertips - uses it to look for porn"... so yeah. - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 I remember seeing a scumbag Steve pic that went like "has the power of the greatest information highway ever devised at his fingertips - uses it to look for porn"... so yeah. I don't feel that's letting the side down. To quote Coupling: When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!" As soon as Caxton invented the printing press we were using it to make pictures of - hey! - naked bottoms. We've turned the Internet into an enormous international database of... naked bottoms. So, you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Frankly, girls, I'm not so sure how insulted you really ought to be. 2 "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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