Thursday, July 15, 2010

What Goes Through the Minds of Internet Users

One of my part-time freelance jobs involves editing online content. In the course of this gig, I get some pretty amazing insight into humanity, because I get to see what people search for on the internet, in all its raw, eyebrow-raising, sometimes horribly misspelled glory. I assure you that this is often not pretty. Not pretty at all. I'm totally not going to repeat some of the disturbing searches here for many reasons, not the least of which being that some of them are illegal and I quite frankly don't want the frightening individuals who search for those things to land on my blog. However, I will share with you two that delighted me.

One person asked:

"Is the Juno hamberger[sic] phone edible?"

Which is just awesome, really. Another had this simple query:

"Stuff to Think About"

It's kind of interesting, and kind of wistful. Somewhere in the world, a person sat at his/her computer and wanted to find some Stuff to Think About. I would venture to say that there are a lot of options out there to fulfill that request.

3 comments:

Lauren said...

Hmmmm...where do I want to go today?

linda said...

My favorite today was "Why did Bush have to knock down them towers?" Indeed.

Megan said...

A few years ago AOL accidentally released all of its search data. Highlights from what people discovered within those delights can be found here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/aol-search-log.php