What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
You know how Google sometimes “predicts” what you might be searching for by giving you a little drop down menu of suggested search queries? These suggestions, of course, are based on what other users frequently search. So I tried teasing out some gender differences. Look at the pictures below.
This shows Google’s remarkable power as a source of data on a range of human behaviors, emotions, and opinions. It gives us insights into what people might care the most about concerning a given topic. When people search a particular political leader, what are their main concerns? What are people secretly guilty about? For better or for worse, Google’s obsession with collecting and refining data has given us a window into each other’s fascinating and telling curiosities.
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This is a great idea Dan: a really clever use of a product for research purposes.
I should also add that, being a man, I find the comparison of the top suggestion in each case to be a rather depressing indictment of my kind
Thanks Dan,
Google is becoming a new metric of social behavior studies.
You can learn so much from crowd-sourcing
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Dan,
You will probably like this blog, which is dedicated to Google predictions:
http://autocompleteme.com/
brilliant.
The lists are hilarious, but also a fabulous means for research
Or it may show how google is no less than a media machine for the indusries that pay to advertise with its service..
dta
I just offered to give my boyfriend head in exchange for a marriage proposal, but he didn’t bite.
has google actually said that this is a list of common queries? people assume that, but it sometimes comes up with suggestions that are clearly not common search queries. you have no idea what this data actually is or how it has been filtered. hence this is an amusing hack but a terrible research tool.
there is a temptation for people to believe they can tap into the power of the oracle with hacks like this. it looks like a numerologists pretending to be mathematicians.
Renee, never place “give head” and “bite” in the same sentence please.
Google is very aware of the possibilities their data mining has in research. I believe they actually used it to publish one of the best paper of the decade (google flu trend on Nature 2009).
The answer to the girlfriend’s most popular question is easily found in the suggestions for the boyfriend’s top 3.
Want to know how to get a guy to propose to you?
- give me head
- sleep with me
- lose weight
(The funny thing is… my girlfriend actually pointed this out to me!)
“Everyone thinks of changing the world [his or her girlfriend or buyfriend], but no one thinks of changing himself.” –Leo Tolstoy
Great research thanks.
But, how the hell is this depressing? (to the first poster). People want different things, there is nothing depressing about that. You could phrase it as girls are looking for the long term gains, boys for the short term gains. Maybe you could go read up on some biology.
I replace girlfriend with wife and boyfriend with husband. It is pretty interesting too.
My particular fave is the last for wife:
How can I get my wifes facebook password
And they wonder why their wives don’t trust them.
try
“why do” and “why do i”
Google is becoming a new metric of social behavior studies.
Nice post, but I get different results:
For the boys (girlfriends) :
http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d5/google
For the girls (boyfriends) :
http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d2/google
I too found some amazingly unbelievable suggestions for “How to ..”. And I did an article on my blog
http://chanux.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/removing-bra-is-not-our-problem/
For the data junkies, if you do the search in the full search bar, you can see the number of results for each.
http://twitpic.com/xlz1v
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Classic!
These results change over time and I’m thinking what might be a really interesting research project is to collect the results over a period of ~1 year to see if world events / seasons / holidays have a significant effect.
Very interesting! I think these come from previous search queries typed by users into the search engine… IN any case, as said in the comments, it offers insights into social behaviors and patterns…
Interesting to see what happens when you change ‘boyfriend’ to ‘husband’ and ‘girlfriend’ to ‘wife’ – check it out!
This is hilarious Dan!!
Another example of ‘Men are from Mars and Women from Venus’..
And super example of how (and where) to make research on human behaviors..
Long live Google.
i’m curious to see how search queries vary across different countries/cultures.
i.m from indonesian,,can we be friend
hi dear
great insight…
Here’s a funny one, type in:
Breastfeeding my
and see what comes up first – quite surprising, at least the answer from the UK is!
The suggestions also reflect what pages can be found – not so much what people search. So if there is a page titled “how can i get my girlfriend to sleep with my neighbours turtle” – it might show up if people liked it.
Remember of course that these results will also include searches by same sex couples.
Maybe a lot of lesbians are trying to get their girlfriends to shave?
And maybe a lot of gay men want to be proposed to?
More google suggest goodness:
http://questionsuggestions.com
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Splendid. I took this idea and build a quickly hacked interface to allow you to do side-by-side comparisons:
http://isithackday.com/hacks/google-suggest-compare.php
For example:
http://isithackday.com/hacks/google-suggest-compare.php?q1=how%20can%20I%20get%20my%20girlfriend%20to&q2=how%20can%20I%20get%20my%20boyfriend%20to
To Tom Walton: Let the truth set you free. This is how it works and has worked forever and should be no surpise. Does the ‘head’ question render us all evil? H*ll no.
It would be interesting to compare to:
How do I get my “Husband” to and How do I get my “Wife” to…
Hilarious! Made me laugh!x
Thanks Bob for echoing my thoughts. It’s way less catchy, but what this really compares is what people who have girlfriends search for to what people who have boyfriends search for.
“Why is my wife/husband” is also pretty darned funny.
Then again, “why is my” is also pretty funny.
More about Google Suggest (from Google themselves…)
As you type, Google Suggest communicates with Google and comes back with the suggestions we show. If you’re signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you’ve done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network. If you’re not signed in to your Google Account, no history-based suggestions are displayed. Data you send to Google is protected by Google’s privacy policy.
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have done a great visualization of these auto-suggest search results, which you can play with at
http://hint.fm/projects/seer/
See their N.Y. Times Opinion piece for some seasonal examples: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/opinion/22viegas.ready.html?_r=1
Don’t forget that some of these may be homosexual results.
Hey Renee, i’ll take you up on your offer…
Did the same for German identity. Fun!
http://germanis.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/german-google-research/
Also see the image search as well!
http://germanis.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/typical-german/
You know, there’s far more complexity in these answers than you might think.
Men, on average, are more motivated by sex than women are. But there’s lots of individual variation, based on age, personal body chemistry, circumstances, and what have you.
Women get the notion that sexual encounters with the wrong person can be dangerous, even life threatening, drilled into them starting at age, oh, 5.
Given that, the conventional wisdom is that women don’t have a hard time getting men to have sex with them. So if you happen to be a woman who IS having a hard time getting a man to have sex with you, you’re likely to feel part of an out group, and unlikely to express it. Even when that expression is anonymous on the internet.
Contrariwise, dominant males are seen to have easy access to sex with lots of different females, including oral sex. So men will be less inhibited about expressing such feelings. So there’s at the very least a magnifying effect.
There are some similarites in the list “trust me” appears on both. “love me” and “be more [affectionate,romantic]” seem pretty similar to me. Honestly, “last longer in bed” and “give me head” seem pretty similar, too.
Many of these desires come from a social framework of “successful women get their men to X[propose, stop smoking, be more romantic, last longer in bed]” or “successful men get their women to do Y”. Which other people imitate. Human see, human do. Monkeys have nothing on us.
I collect these funny autofills in a tumblog.
I love doing this in google. Always makes me laugh. This display of the gender differences is great tho.
Interestingly,
This research only talks about the following dataset :-
Women/men who are unsatisfied in some way in a relationship and who use google to find advice and they query in English.
I’m pretty certain Google Suggest reflects potential results, not other people’s queries. Given that people write content that they want people to find, then this naturally fits the stereotype whether people actually search like this… Or am I deluded?
girlfriends search for on Google:
please visit my web site http://bunty-maharana.co.cc and do 2-3 clicks on google ads pls
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excellent idea
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It’s great.. How do i ask my girlfreind.. Ha ha
It’s really funny what people search for on the internet, and sometimes your own server logs throw up some really odd search phrases too! We’re in sex toys so we get some fun ones!
Nice and interesting research!
This results do not answer what do people think, but rather what catches their eye.
There is a tipping point effect for this kind of suggestions which leads to very very uncommon suggestions to go up the list.
my robot -> is pregnant
penguins are -> my favorite sort of frogs
google killed -> babi
qed
“being a man, I find the comparison of the top suggestion in each case to be a rather depressing indictment of my kind”
Really? I feel that way about MY kind… Both unwilling to take control of our own destinies by proposing and also quite willing to get married to a man who didn’t even want to propose in the first place!
The 7th result for “how can I get my wife to” is “how can I get my wife to shut up.”
That is all.
I did more experimenting with Google suggest and revealed that 1) boys think about sex while girls think about emotions, 2) married people hate each other regardless of gender, and 3) we want our sons to drink less and our daughters to not date black guys.
Six more Google Suggest comparisons here:
http://zingzama.com/uncategorized/google-teaches-us-how-boys-girls-think-about-relationships/
I think this is complete BS. I have never asked any of those questions, not to Google or anyone. Get a grip on your relationship, don’t ask Google about it!
Also, what about the statistics of people who have NEVER asked those pathetic questions…!! This is not indicative of anyone’s feelings in my opinion
Very interesting and clever. You can take it one step further and create 10 simple relationship rules from the combination of these search prompts. Here’s the result: 10 Top Relationship Tips from Google Search
I substituted husband/wife, and got similar results, except for one that was a little scary/creepy.
How do I get my Wife’s facebook password?
It’s also amusing to compare these suggestions to those found for husbands and wives:
http://trueslant.com/erikkain/2010/01/12/google-sex-and-matrimonial-bliss/
Brilliant, just brilliant!
Oh, it goes way deeper than that… check out searchoftheday.com for the main course.
For those wondering about the accuracy of Google Suggest, we did a story on Search Engine Land about it recently. Google basically said that it’s aggregated based on popular searches, but also takes into account topical search spikes.
http://searchengineland.com/climategate-just-how-popular-is-it-according-to-google-31211
The Google AdWords Keyword tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)is fairly accurate as it is reflective of ad impressions (although less fun than Google Suggest). While the girlfriend/boyfriend queries don’t have enough volume for Google to show numbers, the tool does show that the top 5 queries beginning with “how do I get my boyfriend to…” are:
-kiss me
-love me
-love me again
-marry me
-propose
And the top 5 queries beginning with “how do I get my girlfriend to…” are:
-forgive me
-give me head
-lose weight
-love me again
-orgasm
So the suggest data is pretty accurate in this case. Individual experience may, of course, vary.
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I also changed the word “girlfriend” with “wife” and “boyfriend” with “husband.” The women’s results were mostly the same as they were when they were just the girlfriend. The husbands, though, were quite different. They were less concerned about sex and more concerned with romance and emotional bonds. A lot of the results for “how do I get my wife…” were the same as “how do I get my husband….” If you don’t mind, I’d like all the married men to tell me why they think that is. It’s extremely interesting.
What I thought was most amazing going down each list was how they seemed to relate and even answer eachother. I wrote a quick blog about myself even… http://year400billion.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-mans-world.html
What I thought was most amazing going down each list was how they seemed to relate and even answer eachother. I wrote a quick blog about it myself even… http://year400billion.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-mans-world.html
This is very funny. There must be a way for someone to do marketing research using Google auto complete. Interesting, I may try it one day.
Very interesting
Replace girlfriend/boyfriend with dog
Top answer is very worrying
Love this….hilarious
this was so interesting, I went to google and typed in a bunch of things and got really amusing/concerning answers.
Funny post. Thanks for good mood
Oh God, this just reminds me of how lame women are, grow up girls and suck some already FFS
Ha, very creative use of the Google auto complete function. What else could this be used for? Try out other people, like wife, husband, brother, mother… its an entertaining little experiment.
It’s really strange the word “money” doesn’t appear in “How can I get my boyfriend to…”
But well…
if you put them side by side, they pretty much line up horizontally as the answer to the question on the other side.
you want your bf to propose, give him head. want your gf to give you head, propose.
want your bf to love you again, loose weight. want your gf to loose weight, love her again
trust him/her and they will trust you in return
haha nice one..even i used to find lots of times phrases like how to propose and how to attempt kiss..
that remembered me one more phrase..how to (and then google suggest at the top :: get pregnant)
This is a funny trick-
1. go to google.com home page http://google.com
2. type “Me in 10 Years”
3. Click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
how to stop my divorce
Funny Google
Who needs Google?
How do I get my girlfriend to….(any request)?
Answer: Get her drunk!
How do I get my boyfriend to…..(any request)?
Answer: Give a little head!
It’s all so simple……
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