# WTF Google search **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216 "2021-10-26T05:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/21 "2021-10-27T12:55:05Z")
I just put in “eye”. After about 3 or 4 about eye doctors the next one was “eyebrow threading”… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/22 "2021-10-28T00:28:30Z")
same. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/23 "2021-11-12T02:22:57Z")
Resurrecting to add this bit of Google search weirdness: I was thinking about Jimi Hendrix and his upside down Strat, and got to wondering if he tuned it in the usual eadgbe, so I went to Google and typed: How did, and the first suggestion was: how did Django Reinhardt tune his guitar! Now, I haven’t searched either of those people, or said their names out loud. Even after I typed out: how did Jimi Hendrix…one letter at a time, it didn’t make the tuning suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/24 "2021-11-12T03:17:59Z")
I got these suggestions recently: [![](https://i.imgur.com/aksQPIb.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/aksQPIb.png) Google seems obsessed with poop. That said, I can’t blame them since I was in fact looking for how often kittens should poop. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/25 "2021-11-12T03:20:04Z")
Had you been asking any other kitten related questions? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/26 "2021-11-12T03:23:02Z")
I don’t think so, though I have been visiting animal adoption and veterinary sites. The poop seems like the common element here though, and I haven’t been asking any poop related questions. I’d still have thought it was weird if it only listed “you” and “newborns”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/27 "2021-11-12T04:54:52Z")
Hmm. Maybe Google scours chat logs. I _was_ chatting with a friend over Google Hangouts about kittens pooping (or not pooping, as the case may be…). ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/28 "2021-11-12T05:11:56Z")
You can change the privacy settings in your Google account. You can turn off several different types of data tracking and personalization. Specifically, you can turn off ‘personal results in search’. The settings can be found at  [https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy](https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/29 "2021-11-12T05:21:28Z")
Hmm. I did apparently search for “giant poop emoji” and had a couple of other kitten questions. So, not too surprising that it might combine the two. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/30 "2021-11-12T05:24:31Z")
That’s what’s weird, the suggestions Google gave about millstones earlier, and guitar tuning are just so specific, even though nothing in my history reflects those results. I do a lot of guitar related browsing, so I wouldn’t have been surprised at something like: how did Django lose his fingers, or: what kind of guitar did he play. When I was looking for tuning, and that was the first result (albeit the wrong artist) after just “how did” was strange, at least to me. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/31 "2021-12-19T05:03:33Z")
Watching tv, and a building in a cityscape was signed what looked like Fifth Third Bank. Intriguing name, I thought. So I google “fifth”, and the first suggestion is Fifth Third Bank. The bank in the program was in the background and in no way part of the story. Of all the things that are associated with the word “fifth”, to suggest the bank first thing is, imo, pretty weird. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/32 "2021-12-19T15:27:47Z")
On the contrary, that particular combination is probably far more famous in connection to banking than anything else. > **[What gives with Fifth Third Bank?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343473/what-gives-with-fifth-third-bank)** ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/33 "2021-12-19T18:24:29Z")
I decided to start with something preposterous “Why do aliens…” and Google suggested “… drool so much”. Bwahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216/34 "2021-12-20T18:18:38Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Google seems obsessed with poop. That said, I can’t blame them since I was in fact looking for how often kittens should poop. The second result was a fake, though. You know, sham poo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-google-search/953216.md?page=1)