No surprise that reality TV stars and generic celebrity searches top the most popular Where Are They Now queries. But I get a little swelling of pride in my TGIF when I see that Full House and Family Matters are still on the minds of the people.
Have mercy.
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Tagged celebrities, family matters, full house, Google Game, tgif, where are they now
Inspired by last week’s Google Game exploring the midgets of our curiosity — ahem, the limits of our curiosity — one of NHM’s readers began asking similar questions of the search engine. What are people wondering… about other people?
I can’t quite fathom why so many query whether Africans are partial to deodorant, French and milk, but the extra muscle q certainly comes from feeling inadequate. Kenyans often win marathons; White Men Can’t Jump. Ergo: Africans (that’s the same as “black,” right?) must have something physiologically over the slow and pasty.
If you feel like doing a little ethnic googling of your own, you’re sure to find that our collective searching betrays a pervasive insecurity.
Go ‘head, pick a people. Italians. Germans. Poles, Japanese, French, Indian… Folks want to know:
They also want to know if they celebrate Halloween. And Thanksgiving. Yup, Thanksgiving.
Oh, and naturally we wonder if Africans eat monkeys, if the Chinese eat dogs and cats, and if Japanese people eat babies.
[Thanks, Tuck]
This week’s Google Game either speaks for itself, or requires a depth and breadth of analysis I’m ill prepared to deliver at present. While I process, please mull, and enjoy.
By the by, if being a midget does, indeed, constitute a serviceable defense against incarceration, then I’m going down to the DMV and putting my real height on my drivers license.
PS. “Willies”? That’s the web’s go-to word for penis?
[Thanks, DFH]
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Tagged Google Game, midgets, night vision, normal sized genitalia, willies
As if fathers needed any help preserving the cause of the ubiquitous “dad joke.” In this week’s Google Game we stumble upon one more argument for instituting a maximum age for internet usage: the application to date my daughter.
What’s particularly remarkable about this painfully unfunny parody is that pages and pages (and pages) of search results reveal the same document over and over again, with almost no variation. It could potentially be the Web’s most robust document. Highlights after the jump.
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Tagged application to date my daughter, caddyshack, dad jokes, google suggest
Thanks to readers who have sent in their own Google Suggest suggestions. Here are a few searches that have caught the eyes of Unhappy Friends.
From Hilla P., Los Angeles, CA:
These results can be pretty neatly divided into 4 categories:
1. Health + hygiene (poop, hair, exercise)
2. Pet care (bathing the dog)
3. Car maintenance (lube, tires)
4. Financial distress (bankruptcy, donating blood)
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Tagged dead pakistani, google search, google suggest, how often, lupus, mitch hedberg, reader appreciation, what is, why
I’ve been inundated of late with a lot of wedding hullabaloo. None of it mine, mind you, but don’t get me wrong, I’m not bitter. That’s not to say, though, that it hasn’t gotten me thinking. And where do I turn when I am feeling ponderous? To the Google, by George. And where did Google lead me when I asked it about single people? Where many others are going, apparently…
…resources about single people in the Bible.
I was led here to a list of a number of notable singles from the Good Book. To make it feel more relatable, I’ve taken some of the characters’ descriptions from the article and attempted to match them with their archetypal modern-day counterparts. Maybe you’ll see a little bit of yourself in one of these biblical bachelors and spinsters of scripture.
I’m sure to most of us this list looks at least somewhat familiar. We all forget, we all slump, and certainly we’ve all wondered how we can do or be or feel better. Even if we don’t necessarily turn to Google for help.
Rather than address each concern, let’s focus on just a couple that are particularly germane to NHM’s primary slant. (In the meantime you can transfer balances to a 12-month 0% fixed rate card, clean your filters, and practice trying to touch your toes.)
As we’ve certainly observed before, clear patterns often emerge when looking at the web’s most popular searches. And sometimes, nestled in among the usual questions (which usually, it seems, have to do with pregnancy), there’s a Google Suggestion that stands out from the pack.
With that in mind, today NHM brings you a game within a game. After the jump, take a look at a selection of suggested results for searches beginning with “how” and see if you can find the ones that don’t belong.
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Tagged Google Game, one of these things is not like the others
Let’s start today with a quick refresher in internet basics, shall we?
Here’s a tip from someone who’s really web savvy: You can type those addresses right into that fancy address bar up there. Totally saves a step!
I mean. What?
Riding high on Halloween candy — that I purchased for half-price at the drug store yesterday — and finding that my yen for sugar is virtually insatiable, I endeavored to sate it virtually.
I was a surprised to find a dearth of literally-sugar-related material, though these adorable little sugar gliders helped satisfy my searching’s sweet tooth:
Seriously. How cute are we?
Then hit a twinge of sour, however, as I was reminded of how many of my countrymen love country music. And Sugar Ray.
Most everything else in Google’s suggestions looked somewhat familiar. Except sugardoodle, aka SugarDoodle.com. So I took a gander. The site’s header says, “Growing Together [est. 2005].” I scrolled down the page, not understanding what I was looking at, and found an old school visitors counter: 24,757,355. Nearly 25 million in under five years. Not bad. But what is it all about? I read a bit more, a bit here a bit there, and I started to find answers… from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Tagged candy, country music, latter day saints, mormons, polygamy, pornography, regret, sugar, sugar gliders, sugar ray, sugardoodle, sugarland, sweet
No Happy Medium 