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Okay...this is just weird.

With Easter days away, it doesn't surprise me people would be Googling things about the holiday... But, why would you ever need to search for this?

Google recently did a new project looking at the most misspelled word per state. They found most states including Maine have struggled with words that are 6 to 10 letters long.

We search for a lot of weird stuff here in Maine, but we now have official data on the most unique stuff we seem to be obsessed with.

The website Estately.com published a blog recently that looks at what how-to questions each state google searches more frequently than any other state. Before I saw the answer for Maine, I was thinking it would maybe be something about lobsters, skiing, ice fishing, but nope, the how-to question we Google search more often than all of the other states is....

Estately.com has researched which 'D-List' celebrities that each U.S. state google more often than any other state. First of all, who would have thought that this study needed to be done, and secondly, why is it so fun to read?

We hope you enjoyed your Father's Day. Maybe you treated Dad to a barbecue or even bought him a nice gift. Maybe you even used Google to research a gift idea for Dad. Estately.com researched what each of the U.S. states Google searched more than any of the other states. So what do Mainers Google search the most when it comes to Dad related things?

Want to know something, we often turn to Google. Google has complied hundreds of the most common questions Americans type into the Google search bar. They ran those searches through Google Trends to determine which state inquired each of these selected searches the most over the past 12 years.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee finals just happened. Google decided it was a good excuse to figure out the words that this country CAN'T spell.

Mother's Day is this Sunday, don't forget! If you are still searching for that perfect gift for Mom. Or perhaps a recipe, song, or movie that would be perfect for Mother's Day. You might just google a mom-related term. What do Mainers google most often when it comes to Mom-related terms?

Valentine's Day is this Sunday and it is crunch time to get your sweetheart a gift. What to do, go to good old google to search for a gift. So, what google search do Mainers search the most for a Valentine's Day gift?

So if you were to guess, what would you say?  Stephen King?  Portland Sea Dogs? Governor LePage?  Nope, fine guesses but wrong. So, what was the most searched thing on Google in Maine this past year?

This just in about the ‘so called’ alien shadow seen on Google Moon, it was dirt on the lens of the camera taking the shot. There has been a video that has gone viral claiming to see the shadow of a figure standing on the moon.

People that live in the fifty states in America are different in many ways and one of the ways to tell is by what they search for on Google. Even the common thread of us all being American’s and living in the same country, our search interest does vary.

The next piece of technology that will make you scratch you head, as in how do they do that will probably be Google contact lenses that include a built-in cameras. Known as Google Glass, they will be activated by the wearer.

Where would we be without search engines? With so much info at our fingertips, chances are eliminating a site like Google would make the world implode into confusion. And while our dependence on technology might be a little crazy at times, there is an upside to it all-- search engine histories reveal a lot of hilarious stuff about people.