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World's Most Popular Questions—Today's Interrogative Zeitgeist
Man's Earliest (and Toughest) Questions
Even before we explored outside our caves, mankind has been plagued by unanswerable questions.
How do I heal a broken heart?
Why do I never see baby pigeons?
I don't understand how Lost ended.
You may notice that the third example isn't phrased as a question—it's what makes it so hard to answer.
What we know defines us as much as what we ask. So let's look at who we are, shall we?
Modern Look at Questions, Old Yet Ever New
The most popular questions are collected daily using Google's autocomplete feature. Autocomplete lists popular search queries that begin with your entry.
What are people looking to sell? What do people want to have, but can't? Autocomplete suggests an answer, in the form of a question!
While most autocompleted phrases are questions, a few are statements (see Limits & Desires, e.g. I need to vent.).
Why Can't I?
Below are combinations of the terms why can't I with the words make, have, buy and sell.
| why can't i | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| make | have | buy | sell |
why can't i… sleep poop get pregnant lose weight cry watch halo nightfall sleep at night get hard be happy get a job |
why can't i make… friends myself throw up a genius bar appointment calls calls on my iphone a psn account money a decision a new folder in app purchases |
why can't i have… sex a baby you fun both friends a boyfriend nice things her it all |
why can't i buy… blood moon thresh minecraft amazon echo the interview on youtube anything on xbox one games on steam cube world firecracker jinx from xur vc |
why can't i sell… my adder on ebay my car in gta 5 my house tf2 items on amazon my car in gta anything on steam my spinmetal spinmetal |
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