What Husbands and Wives Search for on Google
Jan
25
A few days ago we looked at some telling search suggestions by Google when it came to what boyfriends and girlfriends searched for in their relationships. On the heels of this insight, I wanted to see what changes when we get older and get married…:
What we find, both sides seem to care more about love, but in general the it seems that not much has changed since the days of dating for married couples. According to Google, these gender differences that we found earlier tend to persist…
For a very elegant tool that lets you play with such searches, see: http://hint.fm/seer/
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While I like the idea of using query data for sociological research, I am also convinced that this “typing questions into the search box” introduces a strong selection bias for dumb people (who then conform to stereotypes about dumb people, surprise).
Google is (primarily) a word match engine, so typing in all the non-content words is a sign of Internet illiteracy. “wife shut up” gives pretty much the same first page as the entire sentence.
The similarities are rather sweet, and the differences illuminating.
A couple of weeks ago (based on one of Dan’s posts), I covered this search and a few other gender-related searches (including those for sons and daughters and men and women in general) here:
http://zingzama.com/original/google-teaches-us-how-boys-girls-think-about-relationships/
Type “why does” into google to see something a little disturbing.
David Buss in Evolution of desire has a lot of data about gender differences.
He collected data of 37 cultures!. And he is very empirical but most of hte data points to natural differences between men and women.
brilliant find !
Well, comparing to the girlfriend/boyfriend results – we can conclude that marriage does not change anything =)
Very Interesting
Interesting the strong commitment to the irrational belief that we can change other people’s behavior. Boyfriend, girlfriends, husbands, wives … all fall for that delusional thinking.
Try typing this:
“skinny people are d”
If we speak more often to each other, we will not need google to tell us how to manage our relationship. Make more love not google search
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