http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php All comments for 303,000 Google searchers extremely terrified of Chinese people en-us 2009 shanghailaine Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:30:00 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss elaine@shanghaiist.com elaine@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589417 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589417 Comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:10:57 +0800 <p>China sucks.</p> http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589137 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589137 Comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:15:49 +0800 <p>I am extremely terrified of Shanghaiist.</p> http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589114 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/13/303000_google_searchers_extremely_t.php#comment-1589114 Comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:55:53 +0800 <p>This is pretty ridiculous. I am not dissing shanghaiist for commenting on this, as it must be interesting to someone as a social study of human behaviour. I do think that more explanation is required though, especially since this is a site frequented by Chinese people who may actually read more into this than they should. If you look through the first five or six pages, most of the links seem to be commenting on the fact that Google has listed a large number of sites that have "Extremely Terrified of Chinese People" in them. AND for every site, such as Shanghaiist, that comments on it, the number of sites that have "Extremely Terrified of Chinese People" in them grows, providing more fodder for discussion. So Shanghaiist is actually contributing to an Internet event that is of very little consequence. I wouldn't be surprised if this began as someone's experiment.</p>