Monday, May 10, 2010

Google knows too much

Google, our all-loving overlord and the indirect sponsor of this blog has a feature where you can keep tabs on your search history. Which is sort of like saying that in the world of 1984 you had the feature of 24/7 television.
I know my own search history has produced some weird results: mustardgate, SanDee*, and the phrase "disaster porn" (it's for my thesis... longneedlessly academic story.)

I sometimes use google for malevolent purposes: searching for things like "meningitis symptoms" while in lecture.
That's why using other people's computers is always amusing, because you occasionally stumble across the weird things they've searched for, courtesy of autocomplete.
The prize for "worst thing I've ever seen searched for on google" and receiving the coveted Amy Winehouse golden rock bottom award is *drumroll please*

"Where to buy heroin in Los Angeles"

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