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I wonder if mining it regionally and seeing the unique searches will tell us more about a culture than years of on the ground anthropological observations. Of c

I wonder if mining it regionally and seeing the unique searches will tell us more about a culture than years of on the ground anthropological observations. Of course, it assumes that people are kinda well off in the country and a sizable majority uses the internet. Further, this is something that networks would kill for. Most people google the news they want to read. So, they could manage their editorial content better with this. This data can have so many awesome uses... P.S. - This comparison between Google USA and Google India is kinda right on the dot http://i.imgur.com/FPk2M.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FPk2M.jpg Everyone I know uses a computer for one thing; porn and more porn. I think that this is a symptom of an extremely sexually repressed society. [edit: I am sorry if that sounded like a generalization, but what I intended to say is that from first hand experience and abnormally large amount of people are fixated over porn. It's kinda understandable with teenagers, but grown men and women? I know this stuff since I am sorta an unofficial tech support, so I come upon GBs of stuff that rattles the hell out of me. It might be personal bias, but I genuinely think that porn is more prevalent here due to social norms than a more liberal country kinda like Victorian england.]

paraschopra 16y ago
Did you make sure personalization in Google India was disabled for you? Just Joking ;) I do think your statement about porn is an extreme generalization but the differences in suggestions are very interesting.
- todayiamme 16y ago
  I am sorry if it sounded like an extreme generalization. It was wrong on my part, but you're from India and you know how this society is setup. It is just interesting that it spills over like this. P.S. - I might be the only person I know who doesn't like porn. I know it's weird, but I just find it to be undignified in a lot of ways. Oh and I didn't take the screen shots I found it online a while ago.
adammichaelc 16y ago
I doubt filtering is set the same for both search results. Or else there is some other lurking variable I'm not thinking of. Just doesn't seem true that Indians are anymore into porn than any other people.
- todayiamme 16y ago
  It is like that statistic about prostitution in the Victorian era. Most men lost their virginity to prostitutes. I am not saying that Indians are more into sex than other populations in the world. I am remarking on how it manifests itself. I am talking about direct observation over here. I walk down the street and there is this guy who barely knows english who is watching porn on his chinese phone in the middle of the street. And this is not a one off incident. I might have a skewed view point but I honestly believe that cultural impact works out in some pretty fascinating ways.
GeneralMaximus 16y ago
[edit: I am sorry if that sounded like a generalization, but what I intended to say is that from first hand experience and abnormally large amount of people are fixated over porn. It's kinda understandable with teenagers, but grown men and women? I know this stuff since I am sorta an unofficial tech support, so I come upon GBs of stuff that rattles the hell out of me. It might be personal bias, but I genuinely think that porn is more prevalent here due to social norms than a more liberal country kinda like Victorian england.] Nah, you're completely right. Me and my friends have a joke: nobody has sex in India; we're all children of God. I find it unbelievable that kids at my college never discuss sex. Edit: formatting.
- todayiamme 16y ago
  It is so hard to explain this to people who haven't grown up down here, but I was still wrong. We can't make generalizations at all. Yes India is a society where menstruation is a taboo. It is a "dirty thing" that girls do, or something to most men. Live in relationships are against god. Women have to be "pure" until marriage. Men can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't gay or effeminate, of course. Ah yes, the joys of indian "society", but do you know something? I cherish people who do not live by these standards. When you meet someone over here who treats women as human beings and considers live in relationships to be normal then you have found an outlier, and they tend to be pretty amazing folks.

paraschopra 16y ago

Did you make sure personalization in Google India was disabled for you? Just Joking ;) I do think your statement about porn is an extreme generalization but the differences in suggestions are very interesting.

todayiamme 16y ago
I am sorry if it sounded like an extreme generalization. It was wrong on my part, but you're from India and you know how this society is setup. It is just interesting that it spills over like this. P.S. - I might be the only person I know who doesn't like porn. I know it's weird, but I just find it to be undignified in a lot of ways. Oh and I didn't take the screen shots I found it online a while ago.

adammichaelc 16y ago

I doubt filtering is set the same for both search results. Or else there is some other lurking variable I'm not thinking of. Just doesn't seem true that Indians are anymore into porn than any other people.

todayiamme 16y ago
It is like that statistic about prostitution in the Victorian era. Most men lost their virginity to prostitutes. I am not saying that Indians are more into sex than other populations in the world. I am remarking on how it manifests itself. I am talking about direct observation over here. I walk down the street and there is this guy who barely knows english who is watching porn on his chinese phone in the middle of the street. And this is not a one off incident. I might have a skewed view point but I honestly believe that cultural impact works out in some pretty fascinating ways.

GeneralMaximus 16y ago

[edit: I am sorry if that sounded like a generalization, but what I intended to say is that from first hand experience and abnormally large amount of people are fixated over porn. It's kinda understandable with teenagers, but grown men and women? I know this stuff since I am sorta an unofficial tech support, so I come upon GBs of stuff that rattles the hell out of me. It might be personal bias, but I genuinely think that porn is more prevalent here due to social norms than a more liberal country kinda like Victorian england.] Nah, you're completely right. Me and my friends have a joke: nobody has sex in India; we're all children of God. I find it unbelievable that kids at my college never discuss sex. Edit: formatting.

todayiamme 16y ago
It is so hard to explain this to people who haven't grown up down here, but I was still wrong. We can't make generalizations at all. Yes India is a society where menstruation is a taboo. It is a "dirty thing" that girls do, or something to most men. Live in relationships are against god. Women have to be "pure" until marriage. Men can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't gay or effeminate, of course. Ah yes, the joys of indian "society", but do you know something? I cherish people who do not live by these standards. When you meet someone over here who treats women as human beings and considers live in relationships to be normal then you have found an outlier, and they tend to be pretty amazing folks.