However, what do we really need to know? What do we, as Earth, really search?
I'd like to introduce you to Google Feud, yet another branch of Google that let's you explore the most popular searches worldwide in the form of Family Feud.
Featuring the categories of "Culture," "People," "Names," and "Questions," Google Feud gives a player a beginning of a common Google search. It could relate to culture or people, it could be the beginning of a question, or it could be someone's first name and you have to fill in the blank (or last name). A player has three possible strikes before all the answers are revealed.
I wanted to write a blog post about this because of how interesting it is. As a beginning gamer, I decided to stream for an hour playing Google Feud. I was live on the internet for everyone to see, guessing what the average human being searches. The following day, I decided to play with some of my friends and introduce them to the complex. Furthermore, YouTube legends Smosh uploaded a third video of them and some featured friends playing Google Feud 48 hours prior. When it was actually filmed, I don't know, but let's pretend it was a week or so beforehand.
Now each of these events were within a month of each other with the same game in the same universe. As a witness for each of these events, there were some searches that were repeated between the games. For example, the name "Donna." I completely forgot all the previous answers in Smosh's video during my stream, but looking back afterwards and based on my few games today, the place value in which each "Donna" was searched changed. I also saw this when playing with the name "Randy" and things you wonder about your mum.
To look at this on my own and connect the dots, put two and two together, was a miniature existential crisis. Google always gives us numbers of how fast their work is and how many people search how many things. The numbers alone boggle our minds, but to actually witness it happen... Incredible.
I followed my little experiment further and played several rounds of Google Feud earlier today and a few games mere minutes ago. What would you have it, I got some of the same topics and within hours, the answers were all switched around. The place values moved, some answers not even on the board anymore and new questions being asked every second!
It might seem like a simple thing, but it's awesome. So, congrats Google on the success of your company to have immediate results like that. You did it right.
And for those of you that want to play Google Feud or watch me stream sometime (I'd highly recommend the former), links are here:
Google Feud: http://www.googlefeud.com/
My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/huff_fanatic
To look at this on my own and connect the dots, put two and two together, was a miniature existential crisis. Google always gives us numbers of how fast their work is and how many people search how many things. The numbers alone boggle our minds, but to actually witness it happen... Incredible.
I followed my little experiment further and played several rounds of Google Feud earlier today and a few games mere minutes ago. What would you have it, I got some of the same topics and within hours, the answers were all switched around. The place values moved, some answers not even on the board anymore and new questions being asked every second!
It might seem like a simple thing, but it's awesome. So, congrats Google on the success of your company to have immediate results like that. You did it right.
And for those of you that want to play Google Feud or watch me stream sometime (I'd highly recommend the former), links are here:
Google Feud: http://www.googlefeud.com/
My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/huff_fanatic
