Google has disabled Google Gaydar, but you can still quantify the Undernews by just putting the word "Is" in front of a celebrity's name and seeing what are the most popular prompts.
Personally, I've never felt inclined to state my Google searches in the form of a question, but then I know a lot about the logic of searching. So, these "Is" prompts may bring up a lower stratum of Google users. Let's hope so.
In honor of Wimbledon, let's try tennis players:
Personally, I've never felt inclined to state my Google searches in the form of a question, but then I know a lot about the logic of searching. So, these "Is" prompts may bring up a lower stratum of Google users. Let's hope so.
In honor of Wimbledon, let's try tennis players:
"Is Djokovic"
brings up
1. Is Djokovic doping
2. Is Djokovic married
3. Is Djokovic gay
1. Is Serena Williams married
2. Is Serena Williams a Jehovah's Witness
3. Is Serena or Venus better
4. Is Serena doping
1. Is Nadal gay
2. Is Nadal right handed
3. Is Nadal playing in the 2013 French Ope
4. Is Nadal on steroids
1. Is Federer gay
2. Is Federer injured
Doping or steroids doesn't come up in the top 10 for the Swiss great, who has already lost at Wimbledon.
1. Is Sharapova still engaged
2. Is Sharapova married
3. Is Sharapova engaged
1. Is Sharapova still engaged
2. Is Sharapova married
3. Is Sharapova engaged
How about baseball players? What could be more enthralling than rehashing once again last year's American league MVP race?
1. Is Miguel Cabrera on steroids
1. Is Mike Trout married
2. Is Mike Trout a Christian
3. Is Mike Trout on steroids
Movie stars?
1. Is Johnny Depp dead
This "is dead" thing seems to come up a lot with movie stars (Is John Goodman dead is popular, but so is Is James Garner still alive), but not with athletes or Presidents:
1. Is Barack Obama black
2. Is Barack Obama muslim
3. Is Barack Obama the antichrist
4. Is Barack Obama the devil
5. Is Barack Obama a mason
6. Is Barack Obama left handed
7. Is Barack Obama Osama bin Laden
8. Is Barack Obama a good president
9. Is Barack Obama getting impeached
For sheer minimalism, you can type in just "Is " and find out What the World Most Wants to Know:
1. Is anyone up
2. Is shingles contagious
3. Is today a holiday
4. Is it down
5. Is skype free
6. Is facebook down
7. Is anyone down
8. Is coffee bad for you
9. Is Khloe Kardashian pregnant
10. Is oatmeal gluten free
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