I did something similar one time where I wrote something on a paper calendar, then when I realized it was wrong I looked around for a “delete” button.
It’s rotting my braaaaaiiin!!
I typed in my favorite kids books, 1970s and got a slew of info.
http://http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=my+favorite+kids+books%2C+1970s&aq=o&aqi=g4g-o1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=1a830a797d8f1890
Disclaimer: I don’t use punctuation when I Google.
There’s this one band a friend of mine was in. Truly impossible to Google.
I just tried this.
Fifth result - this post.
Hmmm. If I Google “Download band”, your link is #1.
Well, it’s not impossible to google, but it’d difficult to find what you really want.
When I was pregnant I wanted a new nightgown. My husband tried to Google maternity lingerie. He was surprised by the result.
Google has improved. At one time, I remember is was difficult to search for the band called The The.
Today, a friend emailed me and called me a “weiner”. I almost googled “weiner” to see if that is the right spelling…but realized the results may be not what I want.
I do this on exams. Occasionally I’ll write a word wrong, like “of” when I meant “on,” then spend several seconds looking for the backspace key before realizing that I have to erase with the pencil. Once I wrote “teh” instead of “the” (I was really tired of writing and going brain-dead) and watched it for a bit waiting for AutoCorrect to kick in.
I’m pleasantly surprised - searching ‘golden ass coc’ showed nothing but results about the Canadian Opera Company production of ‘The Golden Ass’, an opera composed by Randolph Peters with libretto by Robertson Davies based on ‘The Golden Ass’ by Apuleius. When the opera was first produced in 1999, the designer’s parents had just got a computer and got online. Supposedly, they were horrified when they entered the same search terms in Yahoo and got, well, lots of results but nothing to do with the opera.
I also just tried ‘diosas negras’ and ‘black goddesses’, and was glad to find references to the Leo Brouwer composition ‘Rito de los Orishas’ in the first page. Yes, the search also turned up some porn but the second movement - Danza de las Diosas Negras; Dance of the Black Goddesses - turned up on the first page, as well as information on African mythology and female deities who are considered ‘evil’. I remember being really careful about this search 8 years ago when I was working on the piece.
Is the web becoming less pornographic or has google improved over the years?
Arthur Clark, a fairly obscure Canadian poet, however, is a real challenge if you don’t happen to be looking for Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer. Robert Goddard, novelist, now at least has his own Wiki page and turns up just below Robert H. Goddard, American professor, physicist and inventor.
I’ll help: it should be wiener, after Wien (“Vienna”) and not wein (“wine.”) That said: dictionary.com. (“Weiner” is listed as an variant spelling in some dictionaries, though.)
Just don’t hit “images” in that Google search with Safe Search turned off. In other words, no, the web is not less pornographic.
It’s actually a fun, nsfw game. Turn off safe search, pick a random woman’s name, and see how far you have to go to get a porn picture. Try to find the name with the longest and shortest search.
You can play this fun game with almost any word, not just with names.
AKA Rule 34
(A Google search in itself you don’t want to tread willy-nilly in.)
First result (safe-search OFF) www.maternityclothesunlimited.com
That’s because the band’s name is “the The”.
Okay, maybe Google doesn’t look at capitalization, but it should.
Unless I’m being whooshed (and that’s a very real possibility with me) drastic_quench was referring to Google searches, back in the day, eliminating words like “the” from searches (like SDMB and many other sites still do), I do seem to recall hearing a mention at the time of that search policy about not being able to find the The - which was also the first time I heard of the band.