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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

What the rest of the world wonders about America, according to Google

What kind of questions does the rest of the world wonder about Americans? Following the news of another deadly mass shooting, this time in San Bernardino, Calif., you can probably guess the answer to this question.

The autocorrect suggestions below, from different Google country pages around the world, show the most popular questions that people have about Americans. Google says its Autocomplete suggestions are generated by algorithms that reflect what other people are searching for, the content of web pages, and recent searches you have done in the past. They're not in real time, so it doesn't reflect necessarily what people are Googling this second, but it gives a good hint.

Google search records in English-speaking countries all suggest that the rest of the world is focused on America's fascination with guns. For whatever reason, the non-English results are more diverse.

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