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...While it's an accepted practice to use search engines to conduct research on potential purchases, school projects and health issues, what exactly are we hoping to find when we type the word "love" into the search box, and what can we learn about ourselves from the way that we search...
...First, it's clear that we don't just search for "love," we Google "love." Over 70% of all U.S. searches on the term occur on Google, compared to 62% overall for regular search terms. What's even more striking than Google's dominance is the degree to which the search giant influences what we click on. Eight of the top 10 sites visited after searching "love" matched the top natural listings on Google.com...
...Perhaps, though, love is just too broad a term to provide true search engine satisfaction. Or perhaps it's not really love we want after all. How else to explain one of the fastest rising search terms this season, a single word that surged 42% in the two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day. That's right: Viagra...
Presidential search committee member and Board of Overseers President Susan L. Graham ’64 said the student advisory group “gave us the student perspective we needed,” though she declined to say how the group might have influenced the committee’s final decision...
...second-highest governing body, unanimously confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as Harvard’s 28th president at a specially scheduled meeting yesterday. Twenty-two overseers were in attendance at the confirmation meeting, marking a record for recent times, according to overseer Frances D. Fergusson, who served on the search committee. News that the search panel had settled on Faust broke late Thursday night, but a president cannot be elected with the Overseers’ approval. Their consent was widely expected going into yesterday’s meeting. The overseers began arriving at Loeb House—the office...