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Financial figures through Google goggles

Guido Fawkes has alerted us to the fun to be had with the new predictive function on Google searches.

While most of them reveal a worrying anti-semitic streak (even in the case of Allen Stanford, who by all accounts is a rather fervent Christian) and an obsession with public figures’ wives, some of the results are very amusing. Here then, is a selection of entries for select financial figures…

Firstly, Tim Geithner, whose entries run a rather wide gamut:

Google search for 'Tim Geithner is'

A certain distinctive feature of Alistair Darling’s crops up in this one:

Google search for 'Alistair Darling'

While Bernie Madoff’s search contains a few worrying entries:

Google search for 'Bernie Madoff is'

Results for Ben Bernanke are pretty predictable:

Google search for 'Ben Bernanke'

While the search for Alan Greenspan is much more succinct:

Google search for 'Alan Greenspan'

Sadly, “Gordon Brown is..” proved unsuitable for publication on a family blog like this one.

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