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What Your Search Box Says About You

By The Daily Dish
Nov 12 2009, 8:40 AM ET

Tyler Cowen flags a Ben Casnocha post on the subject:

There are some remarkable contrasts between "dumb" searches and "smart" ones. People who start their search "how 2" are more likely to search "how 2 get pregnant" or "how 2 grow weed." People who start their search "how one might" are more likely to search "how one might discover a new piece of music" or "how one might for the rise of andrew jackson in 1828."



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