After hours of research, The Advocate Art Department has compiled this year’s list of the most searched gay and lesbian people on Google. Who came out on top? The results may surprise you! View last year’s list here, and see the 2011 list after the jump.
I was making a google profile, and I clicked on the gender, assuming it would only have the binary- male and female. But google had an ‘other’ choice. I was pleasantly surprised.
Dumping the contents, word for word, of some five million books into a massive searchable database, Google has unleashed something that’s akin to Google Trends — for the historical written word. All five hundred billion of them.
The search giant’s Books Ngram Viewer lets you see how often certain words appeared over the course of history.
Naturally, we wanted to check up on the ‘fags’.
“It’s a fairly cutting edge thing to do.”
—Employment benefits attorney Todd A. Solomon on Google’s move to compensate employees who have to pay taxes on domestic partnership benefits
For those that are not aware, there is a huge tax penalty that impacts gay and lesbian couples once you…
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