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Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet | Posted on 24-07-2008

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I grew up in a small town and it wasn’t uncommon when I was growing up to go to the town square and see something like this on store windows:

“At lunch, back at 1:00”

Notice the definitive time when the business owner will be back.

I was reminded of this today when I pulled up twitter and saw this:

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Ok, that’s great, but WHEN DID YOU START COUNTING?

Do I Search That Much?

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet | Posted on 24-07-2008

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Did you know that Google keeps a history of things for you on their site? Try http://www.google.com/history/ if you have a Google account.  You’ll find some interesting information out about yourself.  For example I had no idea that I searched more in the month of May than any other month coming in at 792 searches.

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I also didn’t know that I search for more things on the Internet on Monday than any other day.  It must be all of that downtime built up from the weekend before.

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Of course they are just interesting numbers but it just shows me how much I rely on search day to day.

If you have a Google account, see which days you search the most on.  I’m sure someone can beat my scores.  Who searches more than me?