Sunday, January 19, 2014

What Your State Wants, According to Google Autocomplete

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Visitors wave flags in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Google Autocomplete is notorious for taking a standard search and anticipating something completely ridiculous.

In the style of Tumblr user Gaysquib, we conducted our own experiment and created a map of what each state wants (according to Autocomplete).

The resulting map reads like a list of New Year's resolutions made by Civil War veterans. Did you know, for example, that more than anything, Wyoming evidently wants an aircraft carrier? Are you close enough to Wisconsin that residents revealed their secret wish to be called "The Mitten State?" Who could forget existential Florida, whose only desire is simply "to know."

Check out the map below and see what Google thinks your state wants most. If your state happens to be blank, it's because Google says it doesn't want anything, which has to count for something, right?

State Wants

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