What each state googled the most last year.

[NaturalHigh]

It's interesting what piques the interest of different people around the country.

My state:

OKLAHOMA: Ebola / Ebola Symptoms / I.S.I.L / Jennifer Lawrence photos / Renee Zellweger (actress) / Betty White (actress) / Lea Thompson (actress/director) / Tommy Chong (comedian) / Mila Kunis baby / Carrie Underwood (recording artist) / Carrie Underwood pregnant / Benghazi / Hobby Lobby / Selfie / Sarah Goldberg (actress) / James Garner (actor) / Chelsea Handler (comedian) / Kim Kardashian butt / What is a switch?


http://blog.estately.com/2014/12/heres-what-each-state-googled-more-than-any-other-state-in-2014/

[bigwillq]

1. Connecticut

CONNECTICUT: Malala Yousafzai (Nobel Peace Prize-winner) / Jacqueline Bisset (actress) / Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia / Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor / David Brooks (columnist) / al-Qaeda

[Union Scribe]

2. Apparently we in Michigan love Macaulay Culkin

and are greatly concerned about his continued existence. Either that or we hate him and check frequently if he's dead.

[NaturalHigh]

5. LOL...

[JaneyVee]

11. There was a rumor he died.

[Glassunion]

41. As do your friends here in PA.

[Luminous Animal]

3. What do they mean DELAWARE: Nothing.

[NaturalHigh]

4. I saw the same thing about Kansas.

The impression I got was that the people there didn't search for any one term more than any other state.

Or maybe they just don't use Google. Not sure.

[Luminous Animal]

6. I've family in Delaware. There are Delawareans on this board. University of Delaware is

a large school. I know my family googles and I can safely bet Delaware DUers do. Surely, the students are googling.

[NaturalHigh]

7. I'm sure you're right.

I didn't really look into the methodology of their poll. The story was just something I found interesting.

[Chellee]

19. According to the website...

<A compiled list of all search terms is listed below, and remember that these are NOT the top searches for each state, they are the searches each state made more of than any other state.>

So Delaware's searches just didn't stand out from the crowd, apparently.

[NaturalHigh]

21. Kansas neither, I guess.

[Princess Turandot]

34. That's because the list isn't showing 'top searches by state'...

Per the article:

...remember that these are NOT the top searches for each state, they are the searches each state made more of than any other state.

So people living in New Mexico searched for 'zombies' more than people living in any other state etc.

[Glassunion]

42. Since when the hell did Deleware get access to the internet?

Why am I not kept informed of these things?

[Luminous Animal]

46. Since 1977.

[Posteritatis]

44. They have transcended the need to search and just know where everything is. (nt)

[treestar]

51. not enough people to declare a result?

[cyberswede]

8. Ok - my state is effing hilarious.

IOWA: Flappy Bird (online game) / Richard Dawkins (ethologist/atheist)

[Half-Century Man]

9. What is Tinder?/ Pabst Blue Ribbon....................

Yea Wisconsin....
Considering we re-elected Walker, I'm imagining next years big google request will be "Treating a Self Inflicted Gun Shot Wound to the Foot".

[Chellee]

18. What is Tinder?

You could... google it.

[JaneyVee]

10. Check out how Liberal Massachusetts and Vermont Google searches are.

Click above link, I'm not copying and pasting it for you.

[1step]

12. My state

Insanity: Stopping Voices in Head. Avoiding Illuminati. How to Hide from Chris Matthews.

[NaturalHigh]

13. Seriously?

That is awesome!

[1step]

14. Who are you working for?????

[NaturalHigh]

15. O.G.A.

[1step]

16. Organization of.....GOVERNMENT AGENTS???

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[NaturalHigh]

17. LOL...you're close.

OGA = Other Government Agency. I got the acronym from one of the Dexter books by Jeff Lindsay. One of the characters was Kyle Chutsky (probably not his real name), a black ops agent called to Miami to take out a former member of his team gone rogue. When asked whom he worked for, Chutsky replied "O.G.A." which was finally determined to be "Other Government Agency," a secret government department that is never explicitly named.

[1step]

20. Other Government Agency

Pretty much the go-to for our domestic AND foreign policies these days. And that, unfortunately, isn't a joke on my part. Instead, it's a joke on their part. Against all of us!

[NaturalHigh]

23. No argument from me.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. That reminds me of The President's Analyst

where the villain agency was TPC - The Phone Company. Prescient?

[NaturalHigh]

25. Hmm...never heard of that one.

I'll Google it. Maybe I'll start a new search trend for my state.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. You never heard of The President's Analyst?

James Coburn at his absolute best. It's a very, very funny spy spoof from 1967. Somewhat dated now, I'm sure, but still a cult classic for us old hippies. Do check it out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/

[NaturalHigh]

30. It looks interesting, but no, I had never heard of it.

I know this will be seen as sinful in some quarters, but I was never a big James Coburn fan.

[Blue_In_AK]

32. Oh, it's quite all right that you never heard of the movie.

It was a long time ago and was directed at a niche audience. Actually, I think it was a bit of a commercial flop, but it was really funny to a lot of us subversive hippie types back then.

[NaturalHigh]

33. I'll ask my wife if she has seen it.

She's a few years older than me and a bit of a "subversive hippie type" herself.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Alaska

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (tied w/ Wyoming) / How to DIY / 4chan (imageboard website) / legalize marijuana / domestic violence


Sounds about right.

[PotatoChip]

26. Maine

MAINE: “Between Two Ferns” (comedy series) / Affordable Care Act

I had forgotten about 'Between Two Ferns'. Googled it just now...

[JI7]

28. california is embarrassing , joe the plumber ?

[pamela]

29. Zombies!

Gotta love New Mexico.

[NaturalHigh]

31. Oklahoma has a lot of survivalists just waiting...

for some kind of apocalypse. I'm surprised we weren't a little higher with the zombie searches.

I admit to being truly stunned that "Kim Kardashian butt" ranked so high here.

[B Calm]

35. I figured Benghazi would be in there somewhere

and milf.

[bluedigger]

36. Utah and Massachusetts

Compare and contrast.

[Vinca]

37. Phew! I'm not embarrassed.

[NightWatcher]

38. My Dad used to Google Google to get to Google's page so he could Google something

Ah, the Michael Sam Kiss, good to know that in Florida we are such busybodies we care what other people do and who they kiss.

[Bluenorthwest]

39. The lists are not 'what each State Googled most' they are items each State Googled more than other

States. This explains why 'marijuana' is the entire Colorado list but 'marijuana' does not make the Oregon list although we legalized it on the ballot this year and clearly would have been searched more here than some of the items on the list, although Gabriel Garcia Marquez making the list is pretty spiffy, lord knows more people looked up marijuana than Marquez.
It makes sense that Oregon might have more 'Ukraine' searches than other States, we have more Russian speakers than other States but it would not make sense for that to be the number one term searched for in Oregon, just as it makes no sense that NY has nothing about the Mayor, the Police, or Eric Garner and that California's list does not have 'Sony' on it.

[AwakeAtLast]

40. OMG, my adopted state

INDIANA: Tony Stewart (stock car racer) / Shirley Temple (actress/diplomat) / Ann B. Davis (Alice from “The Brady Bunch”) / “Two and a Half Men” (TV show) / “Community” (TV show)

Not very exciting, IMO.

[Glassunion]

43. Kim Kardashian butt... Oklahoma you guys are funny...

[NaturalHigh]

48. Yeah, I guess we have to own that one.

It was a bad year for Sooner football, so I guess we had to look for other entertainment.

[aikoaiko]

45. The HRC haters should be concerned about the NH results

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hilary Clinton (politician) / Bode Miller (Olympic skier) / net neutrality / “Philomena” (film)

[NaturalHigh]

49. Heh...

I like the way you think.

[SomethingFishy]

47. Colorado... Marijuana..

We win.

[NaturalHigh]

50. Come on now...

That was pretty much a softball for you guys.

[handmade34]

52. "feminism"

hmmm...

...but "kale" I get

[NaturalHigh]

54. Okay...I googled that.

I see that a Vermont resident won a trademark battle with Chick fil-A over the slogan, but is there some significance to the slogan itself? Is kale a big thing in Vermont? I've only been there once.

[handmade34]

56. lawsuit was a big deal,

but overall kale has just become one of those quirky things... not only in Vermont

Kale grows really well in the cool weather of Vermont and Kale Chips are darn easy to make and really yummy!

[NaturalHigh]

58. I guess that makes sense as it was traditionally grown in Europe.

It must be a pretty hearty plant as it can be grown here in Oklahoma too.

[SMC22307]

53. Phucker Carlson? Oh, Virginia.

Seems we're also interested in "Boko Haram (terrorist scumbags) / White House security / upskirt pics."

[NaturalHigh]

55. That's quite the variety there.

At least you didn't get the Kim Kardashian butt title like we did.

[SMC22307]

57. Nothing like a little Tommy Chong with your Ebola.

That's quite a list.