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Through the Google lens: Search Trends Sept 4–11

Alongside star athletes, royals and vice presidents, an unpronounceable village in Wales had its moment in the search spotlight this week. Read on for seven days of search trends.

That interview
Stephen Colbert took to the air as the new host of CBS’ The Late Show Tuesday, with an impressive 6.6 million viewers and half a million Google searches for the premiere, and a search spike every night since. The week’s star-studded line-up included actors George Clooney and Scarlett Johanssen, but by Friday morning it was guest Vice President Joe Biden who was driving the search buzz for the frank and emotional conversation he had with Colbert about the family tragedies both have suffered. The interview wasn’t all serious—the VP joked about the host’s 2008 run for the presidency, and proposed joining forces for 2016. A Colbert-Biden ticket would be tough to beat (in searches, at least).

Venus vs. Serena (vs. Roberta)
Game on. As Venus and Serena Williams faced each other this week in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, the sisters generated a combined one+ million searches from people following the action online. Serena ultimately beat out older sister Venus both on the court and on Google—topping Venus Tuesday in search volume. Heading into the weekend, all eyes continued to be on Serena and her bid for the first tennis Grand Slam win since Steffi Graf’s in 1988. But it wasn’t to be. As Serena suffered a shocking semifinal upset by Roberta Vinci of Italy this afternoon, people from Jamaica to Romania to Zimbabwe followed the action on Google.

Congrats, Ma’am
This week, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, surpassing the record set by great-great-grandmum Queen Victoria. (According to the BBC, this happened at 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes … but who’s counting?) This milestone was popular across the pond—the U.S. was the top country outside the Commonwealth searching for information about Her Royal Highness. But her loyal subjects in the U.K. also had questions. Besides some basics like the Queen’s age and her cash flow, one question Brits repeatedly searched on Google this week was: Why does the Queen celebrate two birthdays? The lengthy official answer on the royal website references the weather, King Edward VII, and horses. An alternative answer? Because she can.

It’s Welsh, and it starts with an L (two, actually)
At 58 letters, the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch has the longest and most notoriously difficult-to-say place name in the United Kingdom. And after Welsh weatherman Liam Dutton nailed its pronunciation live on air Wednesday (and subsequently on YouTube), people around the world turned to Google with a collective “Whoa!” Along with wanting to know if this is a real place (yes, indeed), and how it got its name (unconfirmed, but one YouTube commenter suggests it was named by a cat taking a walk on a keyboard), the top search on Google was, of course, how to pronounce it. With 7 million views and counting, here’s weatherman Dutton with the answer. Show-off.

Posted by Abbi Tatton, who searched this week for [the war of 1812]

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What makes us Human?

Over the past three years, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand travelled to 60 countries, interviewing more than 2,000 people in dozens of languages, in an attempt to answer the question: What is it that makes us human? The result is HUMAN, a documentary film that weaves together a rich collection of stories from freedom fighters in Ukraine, farmers in Mali, death row inmates in the United States, and more—on topics that unite us all: love, justice, family, and the future of our planet.

Now we’re partnering with Arthus-Bertrand, the Goodplanet Foundation and Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, to bring HUMAN to you on Google Play, YouTube and the Google Cultural Institute so we can share this project with the widest audience throughout the world.

Watch an extended version of the film on YouTube and Google Play
We’re making HUMAN available on YouTube starting September 12, and later on Google Play. This “director’s cut”of three 90-minute films will be available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. On YouTube, you can also watch extra footage including interviews with figures like United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, animal rights activist Jane Goodall and actress Cameron Diaz, all of whom participated in the film.


Explore HUMAN with the Google Cultural Institute
Over at the Google Cultural Institute, you can learn about the origin of the film and listen to anecdotes from the people who brought it to life. You can also meet the characters in and around the movie in their daily lives, with six exhibits of behind the scenes photos and videos that let you explore how HUMAN was made over three years. This includes a collection highlighting how the director shot the aerial views that are a signature of Arthus-Bertrand’s filmmaking.

Exhibitions on Google the Cultural Institute platform

Learn more about this project at g.co/humanthemovie or on the HUMAN Behind The Scenes mobile app, available on Google Play. With HUMAN, we want to help citizens around the world connect together. So we’d like to hear your answer to the question of what makes us human. Add your voice to the conversation with #WhatMakesUsHUMAN.

Posted by Raphael Goumain, Head of Consumer Marketing, France

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Want to Increase Productivity? Check Your Software

Ask any productivity expert–and yes, we’re so rushed and harried these days that there really is a career field of people who come along and teach you how to manage your time better–and they’ll tell you that it’s not the complete overhaul of your daily schedule that you have to think about. Instead, the way to end up with seemingly more hours in the day is to make little changes here and there. Once these little steps become habits, like laying out your kids’ clothes for school the night before or writing out a weekly menu for dinner each night in order to be more prepared in the kitchen, you can get things done faster and take your energy away from the minutia so you can apply it to bigger, more important tasks.

Fortunately, the world of mobile and desktop apps and software has made productivity a hot commodity. Two specific titles have released updates today that are practically guaranteed to make your life easier and more streamlined, letting you focus on the important things.

PhraseExpress is a particular favorite on FileHippo because it takes everything great about autocorrect and makes it possible to strip away all the embarrassing things about it (like that text you accidentally sent your mom about the new “genital” soap you’ve been using, instead of “gentle”). One of the best things about the software is that it sits quietly in the corner of your screen until you need it, then you get to click through to find common terms and phrases that aren’t autocorrected already. You can type the same intuitive text abbreviations that you can when using your phone and your desktop computer will insert them into your document or email, and once the program learns certain phrases you use all day–such as industry specific terms and abbreviations–it can even complete whole sentences for you. Best of all, you can even launch entire programs in your computer with a few keystrokes once you teach PhraseExpress what to do. Typing something new and don’t want the autocorrect? Just click to turn it off.

The other great handy helper to release an update today is a long-time favorite due to its cross-platform compatibility. Wunderlist, the Olympian of to-do lists, lets you take it from Mac or PC to mobile application without missing a beat. Even better, you can establish lists by topic or area of need, all within the same account, so you’re not logging out of your work Wunderlist and logging into your family or hobby Wunderlist. It’s all right there where only you can see it, along with anyone you choose to share the list with. You can set up a family list to keep school projects and activities straight, set up another list with the committee you do charity work with, and keep your team members on another list for work. Then you can access it right from your computer screen or carry it in your pocket with you on your device.

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Hell Freezes Over, Pigs Fly, And Microsoft Appear at Apple Event

Only one thing in the title of this article is true. Hint: It’s the one with Apple in it.

On Wednesday, representatives of Microsoft made an unexpected surprise appearance at Apple’s September showcase event.

Apple’s head marketer, Phil Schiller had just finished talking up how new apps could help with creativity and productivity in the workplace on the freshly unveiled new iPads and iPhones, when it happened. To an enthusiastic crowd of tech journalists and industry insiders, Schiller announced he would like to bring out some 3^rd party developers to the stage to demonstrate some new apps for the iPad Pro. This type of thing is standard fare at events like this: It happens all the time.

And then out came an executive from Microsoft.  This doesn’t happen all the time, and the irony was not lost on the crowd. 

There was a collective intake of breath from the audience, unsure if what they had heard was a joke. But as the Vice President of Microsoft Office, Kirk Koenigsbauer, purposefully made his way across the stage, the silence was broken by an almost overenthusiastic round of applause.

Konigsbauer dived straight in and began showing off how the iPad Pro, and the new Apple Pencil could be used with Office apps, such as annotating PowerPoint presentations and drawing pictures directly into Word. The main argument he sought to make was that Office works really well on the new iOS devices.

Strange as seeing Microsoft and Apple occupying the same space may be, for tech insiders the appearance while surprising probably didn’t come as too much of a shock.

In the past few years, Microsoft has put serious effort into ensuring cross platform operability for its products, even if they are competitors. For its part, Apple wants its devices to be taken more seriously as a viable alternative for businesses.

It is also not the first time a Microsoft executive has had a major impact at an Apple event. In 1997 Bill Gates appeared at the MacWorld event in Boston, announcing a $150 million investment in Apple that almost certainly saved the company from extinction.

Microsoft Office for iOS is already available for Mac, while it is scheduled to debut for Windows based machines later this month.

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Did Apple Intentionally Leak El Capitan’s Ship Date?

We’ve come to expect a lot of mystery and even more fanfare out of Apple’s events, and it’s usually with good reason. Most of us will forever remember the iconic photo of Steve Jobs holding up the first-ever iPad, or the crazy invite to the Apple event that surreptitiously unveiled the iPhone 5 in shadow relief. Face it, these events and the marketing behind them are fun.

 

Which is why it’s pretty confusing that the company’s senior vice president of software engineering would oops himself into opening a classified email onstage yesterday. That’s a pretty big flub in front of an audience full of reporters… unless it was intentional.

Whether or not Craig Federighi actually meant to open the email or whether it was just a no-big-deal mistake–since all it revealed was the anticipated pending ship date of Mac’s new desktop software El Capitan, which is already out in private beta–the smart thinking is that this was really the only wow moment of an otherwise standard event. After all, the big reveals included new features for the iPhone 6 and 6-Plus instead of an iPhone 7 as rumors speculated, and a larger iPad at a time when many companies are looking to make tablets smaller. While hardly ho-hum news, the announcement of a twelve-plus inch iPad Pro for increased work capabilities isn’t exactly on par with the launch of a never-before-seen device.

Which is why it’s likely that Federighi’s onstage gaff was really just a fun way of announcing something that was already slated to be said to the crowd, especially since the email itself was practically a glowing endorsement for El Capitan. This new software, which will offer even better workflow tools than the current Mac Yosemite software, will include little extras like split screen windows and better functionality with many of Apple’s apps. The upgrade to El Capitan is free, and will be available to the public–according to Federighi’s “private” email–on September 30th.

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