More Popular Than Sex!

I'm reading Bill Tancer's Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why it Matters and the premise is this: Tancer is the general manager at Hitwise, an internet intelligence company that sifts through millions of internet searchers in an attempt to understand the world's subconscious; for example, when people search "how to" do something, it usually involves sex . . . from "how to make out" to "how to get pregnant" but the number one search in the United States is "how to tie a tie" . . . but that's not number one in Britain (school uniforms) . . . and my favorite is the sixth most searched "how to"-- it seems people really want to know how to levitate.
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3 comments:

  1. celineNovember 16, 2008 at 12:06 PM

    you just reminded me...i want to double check how to clean the uncircumcised penis of my newborn son. where does that fall on the list?

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  2. DaveNovember 16, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    are you going to circumcise him turkish style? when he's eight.

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  3. celineNovember 19, 2008 at 2:51 PM

    ewww...gross...(we considered it because of the cool outfit) - we figured we would let a professional do it in the States (they are so good at it there).

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