Ask’s Search Suggest is Hilarious
If you go to Ask.com and start typing, it will try to help you find what you’re looking for by displaying a list of suggestions it thinks are relevant to your query (and give the arrogance of Ask’s marketing department, probably your life as well).
But not every suggestion is a hit; most are ok, reasonable extensions, but in nearly every phrase I type in there is something hilarious. Take, for example, “learn to speak” which has the usual suspects Spanish, English, Italian, German, and the most unusual Gibberish:
If you ask me, it’s the most expressive language in the world
While most people want to learn to play a guitar, freestyle, or draw, little Johnny is learning to levitate objects:
With his mind, what else?
Americans love to sue you. They’ll do it for wrongful imprisonment, slander, or just about any kind of distress they can of, including tubal ligation failure:
I’d rather check her phone logs…
Ask’ers don’t know much about themselves, so naturally they don’t know if they are pregnant or not, as seen in this query for “how can i:”
Also, your dog is expecting!
A typo on “how do i find” led me to this gem of feng shui confusion:
Since when is this a verb?
I saved the best for last, which is the auto-complete results for “is it legal to,” a horrifying look into modern culture:
The answer is a categorical NO!
There’s an indication that this data is filtered–try starting lesbian, for example–so I’m not sure if I believe these results. My operating assumption is that this is a marketing gimmick to try and get some churn on the blogosphere and free PR. It wouldn’t be hard to drop in a single unlikely phrase to spice things up, now would it?
p.s., don’t type “how should I” or “can I sell my” or “ask me about” because they’re sophomoric. I bet Google’s users are equally idiotic, but they certainly don’t go out of their way to show that to us!
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I wonder if this discount is related to the 40% drop in their stock price:
Nothing like cheap shoes to sell more shoes! Wikipedia describes Crocs as “an American company founded by Lyndon Hanson, Scott Seamans, and George Boedecker in July 2002. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the firm was created to market a lightweight plastic shoe first developed and manufactured by Foam Creations Inc. of Quebec.”