Every year Google releases their Zeitgeist (“spirit of the times”). I was going through their 2009 release when I came across this list for India.
The top 10 How-To’s that were searched in India are listed below
How to
- how to kiss
- how to hack
- how to meditate
- how to study
- how to swim
- how to draw
- how to flirt
- how to chat
- how to concentrate
- how to download
Does that tell you something about the average Indian web-user?
A romantic student who fantasizes about being a cyber superhero but in reality is failing in studies.
The study also shows a major chunk of our ‘net savvy’ population has loads of free time and they know no better way to utilize it!
Is this an eye opener or some thing?
:-D
@Pallavi – hehe :-)
@Mayur – It’s more or less a proof of what we were thinking all along :-D
Does it show that we are pulled between three ideals – the spiritual, the intellectual and the material?
Atma Balam, Buddhi Balam & Bahu Balam (as each one defines it!)
@Parul – Wow!! I never saw this!! It also seems that the same is there in other asian countries. Could there be a pattern here?