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16 November 2009 · 10:30 am · Filed under PEBKAC

Inspired — who wouldn’t be? — by The Bloggess, I typed “i” and a single space into Google’s search box and waited for the auto-suggestions.

And they looked like this:

Google auto-suggestion screen

At no time, incidentally, did I feel lucky.

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8 comments

  1. fillyjonk »

    16 November 2009 · 10:34 am

    “I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur”

    The mind boggles.

  2. McGehee »

    16 November 2009 · 12:37 pm

    There is a prankster at worrk within the bowels of The Great Googley Moogley®. I just know it.

  3. Don Mecoy »

    16 November 2009 · 1:44 pm

    Try it with “what.”

  4. Don Mecoy »

    16 November 2009 · 1:45 pm

    or “why.”

  5. unimpressed »

    16 November 2009 · 3:40 pm

    I remember a prank in the old FidoNet days in the FILEFIND echo where someone sent requests out using: the, windows, of, a, an. It -broke- the message bases on many many bulletin board systems (mine included) simply from the massive quantities of responses from systems all over the world.

    The message bases on my board were all in a single file and there was a maximum size and/or a maximum number of messages the file could handle. With the massive influx of FILEFIND replies, that limit was exceeded and the file got corrupted.

    It was extremely frustrating because of the disruption (I lost only about six hours of messages, had to turn off the “offending” echo and rebuild the message base–on a ) but also very funny. Some people got extremely upset over it.

  6. unimpressed »

    16 November 2009 · 3:45 pm

    Crap…I didn’t finish my thought…got distracted. On a 10mHz 286, that took quite a bit of time.

  7. Violins and Starships »

    17 November 2009 · 7:07 am

    “That’s Why They Invented the Internet”…

    Why. Also see, i space which is perhaps a bit less entertaining than why but a lot nicer….

  8. CGHill »

    18 November 2009 · 1:33 pm

    Some of these have now made it to FAIL Blog.

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