Over in this thread, the topic of an alleged murderer who supposedly Googled how to get away with it came up, and we’re talking about internet searches we’ve made that we regret. I feel like the thread is being hijacked, so I’m starting this one. What are some internet searches that you made that you came to regret?
I’m a writer, and I needed a feature image for my article about teenagers and tobacco use. So I searched “smoking teen girls.” It’s a wonder the FBI didn’t come knocking on my door afterwards.
I use a brand of running gaiters (fabric that goes over the tops of your shoes to keep dirt and pebbles out) called Dirty Girl Gaiters. It’s very important to use the full product name when searching for them.
There was a short-lived Canadian sitcom called Satisfaction. One episode featured a show-within-a-show called Horse Doctor. I remember seeing a clip of it on Youtube, but when I tried doing a video search in Google for “horse doctor” and “satisfaction”, I got quite a few NSFW results…
Here’s the actual (safe for work) video I was looking for:
In the late 90’s my friends daughter was taking beautician classes and I’d just got a WebTV and demonstrated a search for her on Hair and Nails. Pictures of young gay man performing a sex act with an older guy popped up and my friends daughter just broke out laughing and saying stuff like “You go little gay boy!”. That was her introduction to the internet. Needless to say, she ran with it.
I was in the audience for a demonstration (again, early days of the internet. I’m old.), where they meant to go to Whitehouse.gov, and instead went to Whitehouse.com (NSFW). Just checked Wikipedia (I’m on a work computer now), and it looks like it’s still active.
Some years ago, when Muammar Gaddafi’s regime collapsed, I did a search to find out what happened to his female bodyguards afterward. I had hoped to find that they were in a safe place and making a deal to write a tell all book about the man.
Some person had put up a page with pictures of what happened after a mob in Tripoli caught up with them.
I was at work one day and needed to pick my mother up from the Portland (Oregon) airport after work one afternoon.
The airport had been rebuilding the parking structure at that time and kept switching around the ‘pickup’ and ‘drop off’ lanes so I thought I’d search on line to see what was what that day.
I googled ‘PDX’ (the airport’s call letters.)
What I got had nothing to do with airports.
Every time I would close one porn popup, 2 more would pop up.
I was closing windows as fast as I could and cursing, when my boss walked by.
We had to pull the plug on the computer.
After I explained, he was cool with it. In fact I think he went to his computer and tried it.
BTW, it doesn’t go to a porn site anymore. I don’t think. (Not gonna try it.)
I didn’t believe my friend back in the 90’s about what Goatse (not completing the rest) was about… I was wrong… so very very wrong. Now I love the guy though. The train tunnel was the best took me a minute to see it… (DO NOT GOOGLE)
You may have heard of the Australian group called the Wiggles - very fun music for the under-8s. When I had kids, I tried to get some tickets to a concert and (can’t remember exactly) typed in something like ‘Wiggles Special Club Tickets’ - and, apparently, there is a Gentlemen’s ‘Entertainment’ Venue with a similar name.
Yes, I was at work at the time (c’mon - tickets for the Wiggles? - it’s a safe and PC a search as possible).
This was a few years back when Google’s algorithms were apparently more crude. The operative word is “organ”. And apparently there was a porn star who went by a name resembling Hammond.
No harm, no foul. I was embarrassed but pastor thought it was pretty funny.
Back in the early days of the internet before Google and results were pretty much unfiltered I did an image search on something Indian Motorcycles and a fair number of results featured nude women. Though I can’t say I actually regretted it.
A non-internet embarrassing moment…
When I was at work at my desk I kept contact info and notes on cardfile.exe. I had a vendor pulled up with their support line and fax available. In a moment of distraction I managed to dial 1-800-prefix and then the last 4 of the fax. The call was answered with a breathy, “I love when men ogle my young firm body.”
Disney Corp actually did some homework when they created Hannah Montana. They were initially going to call the character Alexis Texas, but they found a porn star with that name.
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