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Great find! You are correct, it ranks even higher than "pressure cooker recipes" in the Google autocomplete. Does Google autocomplete usually indicate somethin
by droithomme 13y ago
Great find! You are correct, it ranks even higher than "pressure cooker recipes" in the Google autocomplete.
Does Google autocomplete usually indicate something is a common search term?
Undoubtedly "pressure cooker recipes" is a common search term used by people who have received a pressure cooker as a gift. But "pressure cooker bomb" seems to be a more common search, is that a reasonable conclusion from the Google autocomplete behavior?
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230?hl=en
Google says "The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of all web users and the content of web pages indexed by Google."
So two things. Perhaps there are many more pages dealing with bombs than recipes though. Let's find out.
"pressure cooker recipes" reports "About 6,360,000 results".
"pressure cooker bomb" reports "About 1,720,000 results".
Thus Google believes there are six times as many pages dealing with pressure cooker recipes as there are pages dealing with pressure cooker bombs. Therefore, given that they state that both content and search activity are used to form the autocomplete ranking, searching for "pressure cooker bomb" is a fairly common and unremarkable activity. This is not surprising given that it has been in the news a lot this last year.
Should then searching for common things that many people search for and which are relevant to recent news be considered evidence that one is engaging in terrorist activity and should be investigated and their house search? I would say, no, that is not reasonable.
- tptacek 13y agoNo, they shouldn't. It's hard to imagine anyone reading your comments or my comments who believes that the police should have been called over these Google searches.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago>Does Google autocomplete usually indicate something is a common search term? Furthermore, Google autocomplete is entirely game-able. /b and or Anonymous have had their way with it on several occasions.