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Post by admins on Mar 31, 2007 2:18:39 GMT 10
Choose and why?
What Are We Afraid Of? Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007 By BILL TANCER
Understanding what we're collectively afraid of as a society is a very difficult task. How can we trust survey responses to questions about what we perceive is our greatest weakness? Sure it might be easy to admit to common fears like public speaking or spiders, but how likely are we to admit to "fear of monsters," "fear of pickles," or "fear of elbows." Before turning to search data to learn more about fear, I've often wondered what the most common phobias are.
What are you afraid of? Let me guess (although I really don't have to).
On any given day, examine the millions of searches we type into Google, Yahoo! or MSN. Once you get past the 12% for online shopping, 9% for educational questions, and 5% for news, deep in the long tail of what we type into that empty search box, Internet users ask about fears. Measuring what we're truly afraid of is as simple as amassing all of the searches in a given week or month for the phrase "fear of." By doing so, we can rank our most common phobias.
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Post by admins on Mar 31, 2007 2:19:15 GMT 10
Top "Fear of" Searches 12 weeks ending 3/17/07
1. flying
2. intimacy
3. the dark
4. death
5. spiders
6. driving
7. love
8. god
9. success
10. being alone
Source: Hitwise
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Post by rafael on Mar 31, 2007 3:35:12 GMT 10
How about being afraid of the unknown?
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Post by leanne. on Apr 6, 2007 14:08:13 GMT 10
bills
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Post by migy on Apr 7, 2007 1:13:02 GMT 10
nakakatakot talaga yan leanne musta na
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