Bad news … good news

Google and Bing searches for negative headlines  showed millions of returns for each of the examples below. But surprisingly, searches for positive headlines numbered many millions more. Read on.

Economic collapse

Google search for “predictions of economic collapse 2015” returned about 3,430,000 results.

Bing search for “predictions of economic collapse 2015” returned 5,210,000 results. Nonetheless, Bing’s search page photography is inspiring!

Bing search pg

World disaster

Google search for “predictions of world disaster 2015” returned about 39,500,000 results (excerpt below). Google collapse search

Bing search for “predictions of world disaster 2015” returned 55,700,000 results, excerpted below.

Bing disaster search

Now the good news…

Google search for “the good news for 2015” returned about 1,120,000,000 results excerpted below.

Google good news

Bing search for “the good news for 2015” returned 61,900,000 results, below .

Bing good news

Seek and find good news

Searching intentionally for websites devoted to positive content will lead to several that counter a false impression that there is more bad news than good.

One such “good news” site (for information only, not an endorsement) is http://www.dailygood.org/. See its home page screen shot below.

DailyGood

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