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Google’s AutoComplete is an interesting little thing. It reveals the inner workings and hidden prejudices of Internet denizens all day, everyday.

And it’s not terribly kind to Cleveland.

Atlanta-based SEO specialist Nate Shivar recently put the search bar to the test and looked into the feelings surrounding the U.S.’s 50 biggest cities. He lists the top four entries; we’ve pasted the top 10 above, although the first four kinda sum it up well.

The results to the search query “Why is Cleveland so” are fairly damning. In fact, while some cities garner at least a few positive phrases, Cleveland gets NONE.

Scene wrote about some more Google fun back in 2010, when the likes of Eric Mangini and Jimmy Dimora were still garnering local searches.

This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2013.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

3 replies on “Tales From Google: Cleveland is Bad, Dangerous And Cloudy”

  2. try the same little exercise with Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and see if the results are appreciably different. Detroit predictably fared about the same as well. It was also misleading to suggest that any of the aforementioned cities received “a few” positive auto-completes unless you consider “segregated” or “racist” positive attributes. C’mon Scene you can do better than this . . ..

  3. This isn’t surprising considering that Cleveland has only recently started its resurgence. It’s going to take a little bit of time to get rid of the negative feelings and stereotypes of the past regarding Cleveland. In time, these search results will change, and to help that, every Clevelander should google “why is Cleveland so awesome” 10 times each day.

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