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WTF, Google?

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM

Processing billions of queries a day almost guarantees that Google will get some mutations now and then. Today, TechRadar discussed some of the quiddities of Google's Suggest function, but the "WTF, Google?" meme goes much deeper. Here are some specimens.

Google Suggest

Has Chuck Norris heard about this?

Google Suggest

Did you mean "recursion?" A programmer's joke, if ever there was one.

Google Suggest

Where is "economic recovery?"

Google Suggest

A Google Ads fail.

Google Suggest

Maps has the potential for aerial weirdness: Did a plane just get vaporized?

Google Suggest

Another Ads fail.

Google Suggest

Who says Google doesn't know visual design? That's flare.

Google Suggest

Third from bottom?

Google Suggest

A "volcanic" emergency indeed.

Google Suggest

Unpredictably NSFW.

Google Suggest

Monkey games?

Google Suggest

Check out the image in the lower right.

As always, XKCD puts a fine point on Google antics.

XKCD on Google

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Technology, google, search, maps, WTF, Google Inc., Chuck Norris


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October 7, 2009 at 9:50pm by Sarah Perry

I had just blogged about one today... Look at "Obama"
http://wp.me/plSaK-66

October 8, 2009 at 9:11am by Damien Robinson

I think it's actually kinda funny!

October 8, 2009 at 10:33am by Shevonne Polastre

Even though these are things Google has to resolve, they are kind of funny.

October 11, 2009 at 6:54pm by galeros *

I find the google™ map™ function™ very usefull. I use it all the time, now. It gives you alternate routes to your destination, from your starting pointe of origine. The only thing m8issing is why one might choose one route over another, like a comment section by users, or something.

October 11, 2009 at 6:55pm by galeros *

I find the google™ map™ function™ very usefull. I use it all the time, now. It gives you alternate routes to your destination, from your starting pointe of origine. The only thing m8issing is why one might choose one route over another, like a comment section by users, or something.

October 11, 2009 at 6:56pm by galeros *

I find the google™ map™ function™ very usefull. I use it all the time, now. It gives you alternate routes to your destination, from your starting pointe of origine. The only thing m8issing is why one might choose one route over another, like a comment section by users, or something.

October 11, 2009 at 6:56pm by galeros *

I find the google™ map™ function™ very usefull. I use it all the time, now. It gives you alternate routes to your destination, from your starting pointe of origine. The only thing m8issing is why one might choose one route over another, like a comment section by users, or something.

October 11, 2009 at 6:56pm by galeros *

I find the google™ map™ function™ very usefull. I use it all the time, now. It gives you alternate routes to your destination, from your starting pointe of origine. The only thing m8issing is why one might choose one route over another, like a comment section by users, or something.