Lifting Fog

veryone knows Google. Like, everyone. Besides a terrible economic crisis and the Olympics, it’s the one banner behind which the entire world can unite. Who on this planet hasn’t Googled himself? Who hasn’t had a question about dog care or smell identification that needed a swift response? “No one” is the answer to THAT question, and a Google search would probably confirm as much. We are one world under GOOGLE. Amen.

Of course, we use the service to research some profoundly unusual things. Monkey drug dealers. Directions to the moon. Tree pornography. Under the invisibility cloak we call the Internet, we’re free to be as odd and curious as we want. (And we are one odd and curious world.) Thankfully Google is right there with us. Type in “is that a” for instance – just three words – and you’re given the following:

It's definitely a Sears poncho.

And that’s only the BEGINNING.

'Twilight' f*cked up so many kids.

No. Sorry. It is not possible to curve a bullet.

"Where do babies go when they die?" ... What? Like, Babies 'R Us?

More babies. People love babies.

"Is." The most open-ended verb in the English language, and this is what people do with it. Wow.

What’s shown above is only a small sampling of the kind of thoughts currently occupying people’s heads the world over. Want to read more? A blog called GDumb recently started compiling some of Google’s weirder search suggestions. The more accurate its search engine gets… the better it reflects the people using it. Think of all the crazy sh*t we haven’t even begun to type!

Tags: Google, Our Dumb World, Q&A

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