454,000 Searches for What !
454,000 Searches for What ! A friend of mine asked me recently for assistance is setting up his website which he planned to be a place where people could find help and advice on common problems. I thought that this aspect was well covered with sites like Wipepedia, which had highly detailed desciptions of complex tasks and events. Imagine my surprise when I was shown some of the unusual things that people search for on the internet each year. 454,000 SEARCHES FOR “HOW TO TIE A TIE” ( Obviously my mother has not been doing her duty and showing them the good old Windsor Knot like she taught me ) How to get in shape, and how a computer works were popular searches ,and how to last longer in bed was up there, although this may have been on a different aspect to my grandmother who lasted for many decades with much of her latter years spent in bed ! Continuing through the list, I noted that hordes of people wanted the formula to find the volume of a cube, and help with the dreaded maths homework , in particular algebra, was also well to the fore. People were also asking for help to save their marriage, their finances, and sadly, help with depression. I was beginning to see how my friends site could cover many topics quite different to those discussed on the more mainstream encyclopaedia type web sites. I was surprised that over 100.000 people had sought advice on how to kiss, which I thought came naturally, wheras 74,000 people had sought advice on how to knit which will never be natural to me. All of this certainly got my creative juices flowing and I could see great possibilities for a multitude of websites offering advice to those in need. Any doubts were quickly reinforced when I noted that there were even 1,747 searches for “How to Eat a Banana” . For heavens sake, just peel and eat…..perhaps it was the peeling aspect that had so many of them stumped.