# AAIEEEE! (Or, When Google Image Search Goes Horribly Awry) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562 "2007-10-22T14:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/21 "2007-10-23T15:21:13Z")
If you like jazz, and want to explore vocal styles, beware, be very wary, of Googling **scat**. I now refer to it as “jazz vocal improvisation” since there isn’t enough Brain Bleach in the world. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/22 "2007-10-23T15:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] If you like jazz, and want to explore vocal styles, beware, be very wary, of Googling **scat**. [/QUOTE] I asked my reference four times if that is what it was called. I thought I was misunderstanding her dialect. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/23 "2007-10-23T15:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] If you like jazz, and want to explore vocal styles, beware, be very wary, of Googling **scat**. I now refer to it as “jazz vocal improvisation” since there isn’t enough Brain Bleach in the world. [/QUOTE] Yes, “scat” is your instant portal to dozens of pictures that make the Goatse guy look like Strawberry Shortcake. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/24 "2007-10-23T15:44:24Z")
I was searching for a picture of a microphone. So, completely not thinking, typed in “mike” and couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting pictures of microphones, but a lot of pictures of stereotypical Jews. Until I noticed the typo in the search box. :smack: Robin ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/25 "2007-10-23T15:45:33Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440144), I had cause to perform a Google image search, and you will not **believe** what kind of nasty, scary stuff came up for “rapist.” ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/26 "2007-10-23T15:51:30Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I was trying to research what kind of roller blades were available at various sporting goods stores. I discovered that dicks dot com is NOT the web site for Dick’s Sporting Goods. [/QUOTE] I know someone who made this assumption - at work. He was on his lunch break so he wasn’t breaking any company rules about using the internet. He had a very uncomfortable meeting with his supervisor and HR but they did eventually believe his innocence. My ex also found out the hard way that when you’re spending your lunchbreak looking for furniture, make sure you don’t spaz and put too many “o” in [mybobs.com](http://mybobs.com). Putting too many “o” will bring you to a safe page, but still something which will get you in trouble when you work for PBS. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/27 "2007-10-23T17:44:26Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] And now I am going to have to go scrub my brain to get rid of [this image](http://www.random-international.com/doubleeye/) [/QUOTE] That reminds me of an ad for some video card a few years ago - the guy’s eyeballs had teeth and were screaming. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/28 "2007-10-23T18:00:34Z")
As an old hat at Google Seppuku, I have to admit that I was expecting something a bit worse. I suggest you start entering random Japanese characters into Google Image Search and then keep going through the results until you find the picture that makes you twitch on the ground crying. Or commit ritualized suicide, natch. It’s fun _and_ educational! ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/29 "2007-11-01T07:54:32Z")
Or, you could just **re-enable** “moderate safe search”, which takes out almost all of the kind of images that could get you in trouble or induce twitching. That’s the default state on Google, so you guys must have _actively_ taken steps to turn the filters off if you’re seeing pornographic or disturbing images. With the default filter enabled, you get tracking and hunting references for “scat” and the most disturbing thing “porn” turns up is a mosaic photo of John Ashcroft made out of images that are so small they can barely be distinguished as partially-clad female figures. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/30 "2007-11-01T13:44:29Z")
I remember almost 10 years ago wanting to look up some info about the presidency. I went to www dot whitehouse dot com. Wow! I always knew that Bill was a horndog but I didn’t think he wanted it advertised! The site now is non-porn (unless you get your rocks off by reading about the candidates). “Yes, Mistress Hillary, I need to be punished. Whip me, beat me, raise my taxes!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/31 "2007-11-01T13:50:51Z")
Inevitably, a simple search for Star Trek images brought up some slash illustrations 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/32 "2007-11-01T14:19:25Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Eh, still safe for work. It’s not icky, it’s just…medical. [/quote] Medical… _is_… icky!!! > [@Slithy Tove](#): > > Now, if your Google Image search had yelded that _National Lampoon_ image from 30-odd years ago of an eyeball staring out from a hisuite man’s rectum… Oh dear Og. :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![FourPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@FourPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FourPaws)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/33 "2007-11-01T14:24:30Z")
My coworker once wanted to look for stuff at the local warehouse store. She tried typing the name of the store in Google search, but left off part. Oddly enough, your search results will be much different if you search for “BJ” instead of “BJ’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/34 "2007-11-01T14:24:48Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] On this very board I was writing, along with other posters, an early 19th century sea story. Think Hornblower or Jack Aubrey. At one point in the story one character was flogged. Googling “discipline”, “cat”('o nine tails), and “British Navy” got some intriguing results. [/QUOTE] Lemme guess, candid pictures of Rum? Oh great, now I am picturing Rumsfeld as an Edwardian-dressed dom pirate. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/35 "2007-11-02T00:07:34Z")
In one of the Ripley Museums there’s a statue of a Chinese nobleman with that condition. I don’t recall his name, but he was important in his time, a provincial governor or Imperial advisor or some such, but the bio-plaque said he had numerous wives and concubines and some of his many children had the same condition, and that it occasionally pops up in his descendants. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/36 "2007-11-02T00:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] In one of the Ripley Museums there’s a statue of a Chinese nobleman with that condition. I don’t recall his name, but he was important in his time, a provincial governor or Imperial advisor or some such, but the bio-plaque said he had numerous wives and concubines and some of his many children had the same condition, and that it occasionally pops up in his descendants. [/QUOTE] Which condition is this? ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/37 "2007-11-02T01:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] That reminds me of an ad for some video card a few years ago - the guy’s eyeballs had teeth and were screaming. [/QUOTE] Hey, [the Corinthian!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corinthian) (note: if you squick just thinking about \*\*gotpasswords’ \*\* comment, do not click) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562/38 "2007-11-02T01:29:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] In one of the Ripley Museums there’s a statue of a Chinese nobleman with that condition. I don’t recall his name, but he was important in his time, a provincial governor or Imperial advisor or some such, but the bio-plaque said he had numerous wives and concubines and some of his many children had the same condition, and that it occasionally pops up in his descendants. [/QUOTE] Double-pupils/irises on the same eyeball (which I think falls under the heading of cyclopism, even though he had two eyes [or four depending on your definition of eye] rather than one). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaieeee-or-when-google-image-search-goes-horribly-awry/423562.md?page=1)