The inscrutable Chinese are Googling for money

Friday, January 4th, 2008

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While the rest of the world has been Googling “iphone,” “webkinz,” and “club penguin,” visitors to the great World Wide Wall are googling for “stock,” “China Merchants Bank,” and “thunder…” why thunder? Oh, it’s a P2P download service. That’s strange… anyway.

China Daily is reporting that four of the top six terms were related to money and that this shows a burgeoning interest in getting paid. While most countries focus on that ever popular search term “sex,” the Chinese fascination with chedder shows that the 1-family-per-child laws are working and that instead of procreating, the Chinese are trying to figure out where to invest their collective billions.

Chinese googlers searching for money [ChinaDaily]

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