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January 19, 2014 02:46 pm -05

What Your State Wants, According to Google Autocomplete

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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).

See also: 20 Searches Made Ridiculous by Google 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." Read more...

More about Google, United States, Features, Maps, and Humor

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