How clever are you? Ask Google

Are your Google searches trying to tell you something?

An anonymous bit of brilliance doing the rounds on the interweb highlights the different suggestions thrown up by Google searches, depending on your language. For example:

Type in "How 2" and Google asks if you're wondering "How 2 kiss" or "How 2 get pregnant".

Typing "How might one" into the box, on the other hand, and Google politely suggests that your interests might lie in a more refined direction.

"How might one attempt to measure the effectiveness of a promotion" perhaps, or "how might one account for the rise of Andrew Jackson to victory in the election of 1828."

How indeed.

It's not just your hobbies that Google makes assumptions about. It judges the extent of your knowledge too:

Type "why" and Google assumes you're being kept up at night scratching your head over "why is the sky blue", "why did I get married" and "why do men have nipples".

But begin your search more verbosely with "for what reason" and Google tips its hat and begs to suggest that you might be conducting an enquiry into:

"For what reason are biological classification systems needed."

One will be playing closer attention to one's syntactic arrangements in future.

(Hat tip: Slate)