{"id":341,"date":"2010-12-06T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-12-06T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:46:39","slug":"what-do-indians-on-the-internet-think-of-various-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/what-do-indians-on-the-internet-think-of-various-people","title":{"rendered":"What do Indians on the Internet think of various people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while I was catching up with my RSS feeds in google reader (<em>i.e.<\/em> wasting time on the internet), I saw this cute map: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verysmallarray.com\/?p=1056\">The United States of Autocomplete<\/a>. At this point, I decided that instead of wasting time reading other peoples&#8217; blogs I would waste time writing my own blog. So I decided to see how some prominent Indian names\/phrases fare under Google autocomplete.<\/p>\n<p>All these results have been obtained by typing the first word or words in Google search and noting down what Google suggested as the first suggestion. <\/p>\n<p>Tried some cities. Pune university. Bombay high court. Delhi metro. Chennai rain. Trivandrum airport. So, apparently, people in Pune are studious, in Bombay they are litigative, and in Trivandrum, they&#8217;re just trying to get out. <\/p>\n<p>Politicians were more interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Sonia Gandhi biography&#8221;. Really? That&#8217;s what people find most interesting about her? I was vaguely dissatisfied, so I looked at the remain suggestions, and was further appalled: &#8220;Sonia Gandhi hot&#8221;, &#8220;Sonia Gandhi photos&#8221;. Yikes! The internet sure has some weirdos. And the next was &#8220;Sonia Gandhi address.&#8221; I hope CBI is taking note.<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Gandhi girlfrield. Yep! Even after so many years, people are primarily concerned about that. No wonder he fared so badly in Bihar.<\/li>\n<li>Atal Bihari Vajpayee poems. Poor guy. After all he&#8217;d done, he&#8217;s going to be remembered as the PM who used to quote poems in parliament.<\/li>\n<li>Suresh Kalmadi Jokes. Not surprised!<\/li>\n<li>Sharad Pawar international school. Also Sharad Pawar college of pharmacy. Followed by Sharad Pawar cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Raj Thackeray ringtones. Yup, really, that&#8217;s the second suggestion. Scary!<\/li>\n<li>Shashi Tharoor weds Sunanda Puskhar. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I decided to move on to media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arnab Goswami is a moron. Ok I cheated a little. The first result is &#8220;Arnab Goswami twitter.&#8221; But I swear the 4th result is &#8220;Arnab Goswami is a moron.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rajdeep Sardesai salary. (Actually the first three results were &#8220;blog&#8221;, &#8220;twitter&#8221;, and &#8220;email&#8221;, but it&#8217;s interesting that so many people are interested in his salary.)<\/li>\n<li>Udayan Mukherjee wife. Poor guy. How prominent does a guy have to be before people start taking an interest in him and not his wife?<\/li>\n<li>Barkha Dutt Husband. After all the #barkhagate and #radiatapes affairs, this is the top search on Google?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was sure Bollywood would generate some interesting ones. So here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deepika Padukone in bikini.<\/li>\n<li>Gul Panag hot videos. All her intelligent conversations on twitter haven&#8217;t helped. <\/li>\n<li>Kajol baby boy. Ouch! <\/li>\n<li>For most actors (Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor the first three results were &#8220;twitter&#8221;, or &#8220;biography&#8221;, or &#8220;blog&#8221;.)<\/li>\n<li>Rakhi Sawant is a man. Obviously this wasn&#8217;t the first suggestion, but really, there are people searching for this phrase?!<\/li>\n<li>Raju Hirani next. Wow. That, If a majority of the people on the internet are wondering what is your next project, that is a major achievement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You have any interesting ones to add to this list?<\/p>\n<p>(Random FYI: &#8220;Navin Kabra&#8221; gets &#8220;old songs&#8221; as a suggested completion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while I was catching up with my RSS feeds in google reader (i.e. wasting time on the internet), I saw this cute map: The United States of Autocomplete. At this point, I decided that instead of wasting time reading other peoples&#8217; blogs I would waste time writing my own blog. So I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/what-do-indians-on-the-internet-think-of-various-people\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What do Indians on the Internet think of various people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}