Performance/Game Show
Two teams have to duke it out and discover the hidden underbelly of the Internet. Search Engine Friendly Feud is an update to the famous game show Family Feud. In Family Feud, the long-time classic, contestants are asked to guess survey question responses from 100 people. In Search Engine Friendly Feud, two teams of contestants compete to guess themes gathered though 38 billion searches from 200 search engines worldwide. See this audience warmup video for more details.
“The Most Boring Places in the World” is a Google Earth tour that pinpoints the location of bloggers, live journal-ers, and chat room commentators. These authors all claim that the city they live in or vacationed in is more boring than any other place they can imagine, at least during the time of their post. Most locations do not repeat (with the exception of North Carolina, Ohio, Zurich and Singapore). What these destinations share in common is their ability to inspire existential crises, home-from-college woes, and the suffering specific to beautiful scenery, suburban sprawl and shopping malls.
Technical Data:
Google search query: “the most boring place in the world”
Posts collected from January 10 – May 1, 2009
55 entries, 52 unique locations to date
