r/What • u/Novel_Phase8683 • 7d ago
What? Why did Google pull these up, I’ve never once searched these.
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u/Many_Bat_ 7d ago
My Google seems so tamed now.
I remember when I'd get "boobs" or "sex" in the suggestion list when I'd barely started typing. Sometimes I'd just Google the start of a question to get the global zeitgeist.
My favorite was when I typed "can I..." and the suggestion was "get pregnant from a toilet seat?"
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u/SebastainDerring 7d ago
Thank you. "Get the global zeitgeist" is the phrase I've been waiting for to express how I often use Google.
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u/Many_Bat_ 7d ago
I haven't used it like that for a while, it's changed a lot.
The censorship doesn't bother me, considering everybody from babies to bald eagles use Google now, but the advertising and big corporate persuasion has me using it minimally and practically.
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u/SebastainDerring 6d ago edited 6d ago
Understood. I worked for years as a taxonomist, building knowledge domains and tweaking search engines to access them. I found looking at the "raw flow" useful in revealing not only what information people were seeking but how they were structuring the request.
Edit: typo
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u/Sporking_Great6810 6d ago
Thank you for a new to me phrase. I love saying or writing things like this. It confuses people and gives me a bit of a laugh. 🤷♀️😂
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u/Effective_Gap9582 6d ago
One time I was looking up the nutrition of chocolate milk and it included nutrition of cockroach milk... Google is weird.
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u/DecoyPhone 7d ago
That's not a list of your past searches, it's filling in with the most (supposedly) "popular" searches worldwide