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- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75I would have thought a top question would have been, "Where are all the women?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74how to harvest gold faster
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+77"Why can't I get online"
How the hell are they goggling that if they can't get online? - ChimaeraDvy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+59What is love? --> Baby don't hurt me, Don't hurt me, no more!
- OSXpert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39What would that sociologist say about the top ten searches in america?
1. Angelina Jolie Naked?
2. Jessica Alba Naked?
...etc - CurToast, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love that I've been searching for?
Is this love or am I dreaming?
Is this love?
(I'm so sorry.)
Also, this just adds weight to my theory that the Chinese are robots. Robots with deep, unanswered questions about the world. Robots with the Power to Believe. - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26What is love?
Why do we love?
How to kiss?
How to get pregnant?
Wow. That made my day. - asvasv, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24In Soviet Russia, wife finds you!!
- PaulusVictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Russia!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+181 billion chinese people and they need to ask how to get pregnant!
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@Jesus Faction,
The Long March Spirit comes from murals and banners telling the passerby to "have it", kind of like the other popular one, "Building a Harmonious Society". Both are done by the Chinese Communist Party.
The Long March Spirit is essentially talking about how the Chinese Communist Party survived and about Mao Zedong's rise. It new concept is also popular amongst Chinese Nationalists, the most vocal of which are basically fundamentalist in their loyalty to China as a land and country. It is also marked as the beginning of the turning point after the Century of Humiliation (when the Western powers supposedly disgraced China for a century with wars and dividing it up). Keep in mind, in Chinese History textbooks, they make the Long March into a tactical maneuver as opposed to the reality; a massive military retreat (really kind of like Rambo and Vietnam). Most revealing is a quote from Mao Zedong:
"The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March
http://encarta.msn.com/text_761559589___5/Mao_Zedong.html
http://english.pladaily.com.cn/site2/special-reports/2006-08/14/content_554037.htm - sithmat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Question: How do you know your blog is a piece of *****?
Answer: When it crashes after only 71 diggs. - freehunter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I constantly use other computers to google solutions to problems I am having on a computer that I cannot get working. I assume they may have gone to a friend's house/hut/shack/paddy to use their computer/phone/tractor to figure out why their own computer/phone/tractor will not connect to the webs.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21How about "What is the Digg Effect?"
http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/What_the_Chinese_want_to_know_top_google_question_searches/ - Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Top 10 "Why" questions:
1. Why did they go on the Long March?
2. Why are we alive?
3. Why do we need to drink water?
4. Why can't I open this page/link?
5. Why does my hair fall out?
6. Why can't I get online?
7. Why do we love?
8. Why study?
9. Why take part in exams?
10. Why get married?
Top Ten "How" questions:
1. How to lose weight?
2. How to reset a system?
3. How to make money?
4. How to get pregnant?
5. How to build a harmonious society?
6. How to start a business?
7. How to put on make-up?
8. How to kiss?
9. How to trade stocks?
10. How to get plastic surgery?
Top 10 "What Is" questions:
1. What is love?
2. What is the Long March spirit?
3. What is a blog?
4. What is dual-core?
5. What is 3G?
6. What is harmonious society?
7. What are futures?
8. What is a trojan horse?
9. What is happiness?
10. What is an ecosystem?
Top 10 "Should I" questions:
1. Should I read the classics?
2. Should I continue living?
3. Should people with computers keep writing characters by hand?
4. Should I take part in exams?
5. Should I join the Party?
6. Should I have a child?
7. Should we abolish the death penalty?
8. Should I see an Internet friend in person?
9. Should I get married?
10. Should I buy a house? - nanotech2020, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14and these were the searches that brought the secret police to break their door down and haul off the entire family including the family pets for re-education.
how to start democracy?
what happened at the Tiananmen massacre?
why is there only one party at every election?
Where to find books by the Dali Lama?
How to practice Falun Gong?
How to start a church group in your home? - JesusFaction, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14What is the Long March spirit?
I have the same question... - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Dammit, they are still searching using phrases rather than keywords..
- elcuervo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Soon to be most popular question: Where can I find a wife?
- raada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I would think the top questions would be:
Why am I being censored?
How do I get rid of censoring?
What is censorship?
Should I question censorship?
And they would all redirect to a page reading "This page have been censored by Google and the Chinese government. Please try again.." - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71. Who put the Bop in the Bop She Bop She Bop?
- demodawid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"How to get pregnant?"
I bet there's a lot of people willing to make a demonstation... - Hoodwinker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Some of the questions they ask make Google seem like a magic 8 ball.
- fenderrocker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I wonder how ridiculus America's searches are
- crexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7China is very conservative, and sex and pregnancy is not taught in the majority of schools in a level deep enough.
As a result there are dozens of stories about how people literally follow the "analogies" of how to have babies since people are so conservative, even many of the clinics refuse to actually show videos or demonstrate how its done. Plus the fact that porn is banned from China and what you browse can be traced (since most people go online in China via Internet Cafe's and its popular knowledge that they do logging).
One semi-popular one is how a clinic shows how to put on a condom using his thumb. The patient comes back and literally had done that. Put a condom over his thumb. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Building a Harmonious Society is a propaganda phrase from the Chinese Communist Party. It is a phrase that basically demands conformity and submission to the government.
You can huge see red banners hung on buildings and walls that say quotes telling the passerby what to do. There are countless murals throughout the country that do this too. Building a Harmonious Society is one of them. Others include, "Liberate Taiwan", "For a Prosperous Nation" and so forth. - Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Best one:
Number 6: Why can't I get online? - omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Soon they'll become Ents.
- SirBryce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Why don't Chinese people use Wikipedia?
Oh wait............ - polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You ppl, read the friggin' article. The stats is NOT from google, but baidu.com, a Chinese search engine.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52. How can I ditch a wife?
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8chinese people are soo cute
- crosswick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"How to build a harmonious society?"
Maybe asking this question on Google together with millions of other Chinese people might be a start... Now if only Google provided some kind of API to actually follow up on collective curiosity like this and get some stuff done. - LynJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was the one who translated this, and I have a few things to say. First, these are the top questions on China's top search engine, Baidu, not on Google. Second, these are the top questions as they've been reported. I'm certain that Baidu would not release top questions that were politically or sexually sensitive. There's no way to know. But my guess is that "Why did they go on the Long March" might not have numerically been as high as it is on the list if it weren't a popular political movement at the moment. Third, these are phrases, not keywords, because they come from Baidu's "Baidu Knows/Baidu Zhidao" search feature--NOT from the basic web search. Baidu Knows is the equivalent of Yahoo! Answers. Fourth, two of the questions ("Should I continue living?" and "Why do we love") were actually the titles to popular songs, as I noted in the original post. And finally, China's Internet population is overwhelmingly under the age of 30, so these are young peoples' questions. There's no specific demographic data on what kinds of users are asking questions of Baidu Knows.
- Renton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"My bros best dawg is an astronaut, you cant get a boner in space?"
- haobaba1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3After thinking about this a few minutes I finally concluded that this is not a sociologists dream because it is more ***** propaganda from the communist party. Of course everyone in china is trying very hard to learn how to be a better party member! And if you aren't then this is more evidence you are outside the majority of people that love the commie party that steals your land and poisons your water.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They're not using Google, they're using Baidu, China's (by far) #1 Search Engine.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wouldn't you if your parents, friends, and school, and everything else taught you that only the Chinese Communist Party can bring you out of the "Century of Humiliation (by Western Powers)"?
Considering the emphasis on face in China and the huge rise in Chinese Nationalism (read German Nationalism) then perhaps you'd get a better idea of why even many Chinese Americans prefer a brutal fascist authoritarianism for China than a democratic republic. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So you are a historian, sociologist and psychologist. And by are I mean are not.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They will become motherboards and cell phones.
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Mirag3
Thank you VERY much...I will have to re-take English 101 then...at the meantime, may I suggest you go to a "quit-being-a-prick-and-contribute-to-the-discussion" clinic? You can use some help there... - polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"makes them seem dumb, ive never asked one of those questions"
That comment makes you SO DAMN SMART you snuody a**! - ybisme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2err thats been done half way up the page,,
- E3L1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't understand why the "What is Love" YTMND got digged down, but this got up....
- FrugalFreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2here's one, even us americans ask,
why must I feel so alone? why is there not one for me?
Why must I go on? Why do I care? - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why are we alive?
Something tells me this question is related to this story:
http://www.digg.com/world_news/Chinese_facing_shortage_of_wives - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4wow, that is very inspiring and encouraging. if you looked at America's top google searches, it would be differently phrased questions asking about how to masteurbate
- Willeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd be a lot more interested in what results Google China gave to these questions compared to in the West.
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