Sometimes internet searches lead us to strange places. I recently had two amusing examples:
I was searching for which Foghorn Leghorn cartoon he used a whole tree to make a baseball bat (“Henhouse Henery” btw.), and the results from a search for Foghorn Leghorn bat included a series a cartoons depicting Foghorn and Dawg as gay rapists attempting to overpower each other.
I was searching for the name of a vaguely-recalled axe murderer movie which I didn’t find, but I did stumble upon “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyon”, a rather dark take on the popular folklore hero.
I was in a Maya class (3D modelling and animation) and we were each assigned a monster to develop. The instructor put monster names in a hat, and I drew the basilisk.
We next went to the internet to grab reference images. A basilisk is part hen and snake, so I did a search for “hen.” I got tentacle porn.
A classmate told me told me it was called “hentai.” Evidently hentai vastly outranks hen in searches.
Similarly, if you ever want to research the tropical hardwood called ebony, you might instead find vast numbers of pictures of nude African-American women.
I believe things like that were why Google made moderate safe search the default for their search engine.
A few years ago, my wife and a coworker were trying to remember the name of the company that made a line of bath products called “Dirty Girls”, which they had seen at a trade show. So they googled “dirty girls”… and you can probably guess how well that turned out.
I made my wife laugh awhile back. She wanted to know what the name of those “little” accordions were (concertinas). I told her “It’s a good thing I remembered the name- a Google search on ‘squeeze box’ would have been no help at all”.