# Google Fun

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 26, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780 "2012-01-26T22:31:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780/1 "2012-01-26T22:31:45Z")

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Google “annagram” and you get “Did you mean ‘anagram’?”

Google “anagram” and you get “Did you mean ‘nag a ram’?”

Heh.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780/2 "2012-01-26T22:39:15Z")

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also try the following (without quotes):

“recursion”  
“Do a barrel roll”  
“number of horns on a unicorn”  
“answer to life the universe and everything”

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780/3 "2012-01-26T22:46:19Z")

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> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> Google “annagram” and you get “Did you mean ‘anagram’?”

What am I missing here?  
“French military victories” used to get the suggestion “Did you mean French military defeats?” but Google have changed the way their engine works.

See more here about how these have come about: [Google bombing - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb)

The anagram thing is clearly Google having fun though and isn’t a Google Bomb in the same sense.

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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780/4 "2012-01-26T22:55:38Z")

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> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#):
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> What am I missing here?

You aren’t missing anything, this was merely to illustrate to the 13 or 14 people in the world who don’t already know it that Google will make an alternate suggestion if you misspell a word.

Yeah, _that_ was pretty stupid.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-fun/610780/5 "2012-01-26T23:59:47Z")

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> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#):
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> The anagram thing is clearly Google having fun though and isn’t a Google Bomb in the same sense.

That’s a [Google hoax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes).