the amazingness of everyday
Mar. 8th, 2007 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xaaraWhen I updated Firefox the last time, Google somehow (via magic, I assume, though other possibilities exist) developed the ability to suggest search terms I might want to input based on a few words typed into the search bar.
This is an extremely distracting feature.
Yesterday, as you might recall, I posted a list of Google's suggestions after I typed "how to."
Today, I was bored. So I typed in "why" and looked at the ten suggestions I received in exchange. Some of them are not interesting (why lyrics, whyy), but some of them are fascinating:
1. why is the sky blue?
4. why we fight
7. why do cats purr?
8. why do we have christmas trees?
9. why do men cheat?
10. why don't penguins' feet freeze?
Tenth result under what: what is the answer to life the universe and everything?
Four out of the ten results for who have to do with the game show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? (One of the others is who let the dogs out?)
Second suggestion under where is where's waldo?
Under when: (1) when is hannukah, (6) when was jesus born, (10) when is easter 2007. The rest of them are either lyrics or (9) when harry met sally.
I'm endlessly fascinated by these. They're so impersonal, but somehow they force me back into the mind of whoever was typing them, into the person's reasons and motivations, into his relationship with his kids or the job she hates. It's cool. I want to write some of them down. Maybe I'll create a series out of it.
This is an extremely distracting feature.
Yesterday, as you might recall, I posted a list of Google's suggestions after I typed "how to."
Today, I was bored. So I typed in "why" and looked at the ten suggestions I received in exchange. Some of them are not interesting (why lyrics, whyy), but some of them are fascinating:
1. why is the sky blue?
4. why we fight
7. why do cats purr?
8. why do we have christmas trees?
9. why do men cheat?
10. why don't penguins' feet freeze?
Tenth result under what: what is the answer to life the universe and everything?
Four out of the ten results for who have to do with the game show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? (One of the others is who let the dogs out?)
Second suggestion under where is where's waldo?
Under when: (1) when is hannukah, (6) when was jesus born, (10) when is easter 2007. The rest of them are either lyrics or (9) when harry met sally.
I'm endlessly fascinated by these. They're so impersonal, but somehow they force me back into the mind of whoever was typing them, into the person's reasons and motivations, into his relationship with his kids or the job she hates. It's cool. I want to write some of them down. Maybe I'll create a series out of it.