# Things you googled in innocence? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402 "2012-07-16T10:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/1 "2012-07-16T10:08:34Z")
“strange fantasy” I was looking for fantasy novels in the genre where rather than Lord Of The Rings shit is just odd, ended up going duh at the endless sexual results:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/2 "2012-07-16T10:52:29Z")
Not Google, but the website for Dick’s Sporting Goods is not, in fact, dicks . com. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/3 "2012-07-16T10:59:37Z")
I needed pens made with my business name on them. During telephone discussion, a friend told me he got a great deal at pen island dot com. So, I typed pen island dot com into my browser. I was gotcha’d. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/4 "2012-07-16T11:02:34Z")
I searched for “CBT”, cognitive behavioural therapy. Half the results were on “_Male-Chicken_&Ball Torture” ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/5 "2012-07-16T11:16:55Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Not Google, but the website for Dick’s Sporting Goods is not, in fact, dicks . com. I don’t know how much they paid (I’m guessing a lot), but it is now. When the Internet was new my sister went looking for [Dicks.com](http://Dicks.com) when she wanted to look up a jacket they had… at a family party… in front of our grandma… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/6 "2012-07-16T11:20:22Z")
I needed a stock photo of some cream pie once, so I fired up Google Images and…oh my. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/7 "2012-07-16T11:47:09Z")
I got married in the artic circle, and my mother wanted a furr muff (to keep her hands warm). Thankfully I didn’t google from work - I wasn’t _that_ naive 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/8 "2012-07-16T11:59:46Z")
Once at work I was trying to get some help with a Latin phrase, completely forgetting that the conjunction _cum_ is not a word you should search for at work. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/9 "2012-07-16T12:07:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I needed pens made with my business name on them. During telephone discussion, a friend told me he got a great deal at pen island dot com. So, I typed pen island dot com into my browser. > > I was gotcha’d. That URL has once existed and it was, indeed, about pens. I do, however, think there was a joke involved as well. ---
**Author:** ![spanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@spanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spanna)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/10 "2012-07-16T12:12:13Z")
I have two which still make me wince about 10 years ago I was trying describe Cleo Laine’s singing and googled " “scat” in my innocence :eek: And just this year, in a conversation at work about Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty a debate broke out about whether Black Beauty was male or female so I googled What sex was black beauty Of course using sex and black beauty in the same search meant that Anna Sewell wasn’t anywhere near the first page of results 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/11 "2012-07-16T12:17:04Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > Half the results were on “_Male-Chicken_&Ball Torture” I understand: roosters playing soccer. That’s awful; it’s bad enough when humans do it. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/12 "2012-07-16T12:22:38Z")
I once googled my first name and found out that it’s practically a fetish. Who knew there’d be so many… _Jennifer sites._ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/13 "2012-07-16T12:33:33Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > That URL has once existed and it was, indeed, about pens. I do, however, think there was a joke involved as well. Well, at least at that time pen island = penis land. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/14 "2012-07-16T12:39:46Z")
I once found an odd pile of poop in my yard, and tried to Google it to see if it was bear scat. Don’t Google scat. Really. Just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/15 "2012-07-16T12:57:55Z")
A Google image search for _Parus major_ is best done using the Latin name rather than the English one. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/16 "2012-07-16T12:58:29Z")
Way back in the infant stage of the internet when public schools hadn’t yet put firewalls and such in place, a teacher told me that her class was doing research on woodland creatures and that she (nor many of her students) had no idea that the innocent word “beaver” had a secret, prurient alternate interpretation. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/17 "2012-07-16T13:08:04Z")
My accidental Google was because I didn’t know what a word meant. A work friend of mine was looking for a new iPod case. I found one online that I thought was really cool. It was case that covered the edges and I thought it looked like a man was trying to escape from the inside of the case. Pretty Cool Huh? um… when you send your friend a picture of an goatse iPod cover it gets a mixed reaction. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/18 "2012-07-16T13:12:24Z")
This is pretty obscure…but for my work (geography research on indigenous land tenure in Latin America), there were several months when I often had to use a Mexican government database website called “PHINA”. Every time I googled it, I was directed instead to images of a [very hot model-actress](http://www.google.com/search?q=phina+oruche&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS486US486&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ChMEULndB4PY0QGVtK3pBw&ved=0CFcQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=641). (Safe for work, but not by much!). ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/19 "2012-07-16T13:17:55Z")
LaTeX [LaTeX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) is a computer document preparation system, basically a powerful alternative to a word processor. I googled the term often which probably left me being profiled as a dirty old man by Google. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402/20 "2012-07-16T13:35:49Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > A Google image search for _Parus major_ is best done using the Latin name rather than the English one. I just made an experiment, all for the sake of knowledge of course, and found that if you search for a singular specimen you will only get pictures of birds of the feathered persuasion, whether a filtered search or not. If you search for plural, however, the result will be totally different. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-googled-in-innocence/628402.md?page=2)