Jonathan Taylor writes:
There’s been a lot of fun lately looking at Google’s search query completion suggestions (what’s the better phrase for those?). With the hullaballoo about Google in China, I realized I hadn’t yet seen comparisons of these searches across international Google sites. To wit: Here’s what comes up on Google.com.hk (Hong Kong) when you type in “why” (in English):

Um, are you ready for the U.S. site’s questions?

Meanwhile, the Russian Google site’s top query—”Why is Putin a crab”—is itself the subject of other queries, asking why that is the case. (There’s an answer somewhere behind the wall at the Moscow Times):

And in Italy, the questions include both “Why do women bathe?” and “Why doesn’t my girlfriend bathe?” (and “Why did Michael Jackson become white?”):

Any linguists care to tackle other foreign Google sites?