From Virtual China Blog:
Check out Baidu Knowledge’s 2006 top ten questions list. They’ve divided it into four different kinds of questions and provided access to the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers. If you care to browse in Chinese, all the answers are rated by readers and commented upon. Here is a very rough translation of the top 10 questions, and some of the text around them on Baidu. Kind of hard to translate, for some reason.
Each year’s Zeitgeist ranking contains questions about the unknown. The individual seems so tiny when compared with the huge, complicated world. All that is unsolvable and confusing can be turned into a series of questions that many people would rather bring to a search engine than communicate with a real person.
As for the 4 different kinds of questions asked here, “why” is looking for reasons, “how” is searching for a method to do something, “what” is looking for definitions, “should I” is looking for the answer to a choice.[Full Text]
