Can Jesus microwave a burrito?

According to Urban Dictionary: Theoretically, yes.

I always thought it would be cool if you could experience a day in someone else's mind, thereby experiencing all of their thoughts and mental processes.  At the moment, one of the ways in which we can catch a glimmer of the mysterious perspective of others is through auto-suggest based on millions of data from human input (in search engines).  Unfortunately (or fortunately), these can sometimes be just as strange as you can imagine (or couldn't imagine).

For example, take these auto-suggest results from Mashable:



Do these sample results reflect a glimpse into the mind of a crazed search-obsessed few and the many others who simply select hilarious auto-results out of curiosity, or is this an accurate glimpse into the typical queries of the average 21st century Google-user?

I actually came across this one myself today:

(By the way, the reviews for this 1995 book on Amazon are great.)

I haven't done a thorough analysis, but my first impression is that this data is probably useful in some way.  Search engines receive a huge amount of unique traffic each day, which means they have a huge sample base and virtually non existent sampling bias in that respect.  I also think it's fairly safe to assume that the active, relevant part of current Western and European societies use the Internet fairly regularly, so demographically there is a good range, if you're looking at mindsets in Western cultures (obviously these results may not apply to other cultures). 

However, I think there is still a huge range in how people actually use the Internet.  I think some people try to use the Internet as a second brain (e.g. can jesus help me?), while others use it a global encyclopedia (e.g. when will i get my tax refund?), and still others as a method to vent their thoughts into an impossibly large and tangled void, in hopes that their philosophical musings will be become clear (e.g. when will the world end?).  Let's not exclude those who it to obtain news, follow popular culture, and exploit the widespread availability of free data and media.

Perhaps you can determine that certain types of people typically use the Internet for certain things.  For example, maybe teenagers typically use the Internet to acquire media (hypothetically, of course), while middle-aged people use it as an encyclopedia, and thirty-somethings like to contribute mindless chatter.   Once you've then broken search results into these categories, you could begin to apply results to each category and determine in general what that demographic 'thinks about', relative to the depth of thought that they inputted in the first place.  For example, searches regarding the meaning of life (assuming they're not for Monty Python) might be considered 'deeper' inputs than searching for the correct pressure level in a tire.  From there, you could identify the particular thoughts that seem to occur and link them to each demographic.  Alternatively, you could identify the relationship that that demographic has with the Internet, and you could draw something about how that relationship evolved and how it affects that demographic.

In any case, I think it would make for an interesting and probably hilarious study, so I hope that some psychology grads take it upon themselves to check this out in more detail (if they haven't already).  Meanwhile, I typically keep my Internet interaction pretty shallow and limited basically to encyclopedic use and collaboration...which means Yahoo Answers is purely for enjoyment.