Letters to the World » Weird Search Requests

10-Mar-2002

Filed under: General — codeman38 @ 2:32 am

And now… The moment you’ve all been waiting for… It’s… [cue that guy from Monty Python] Weird Search Requests!

Here are some actual, unaltered search requests as found in a recent zone38.net server log:

myself font – I’m still trying to figure out exactly what this person was looking for. A custom handwriting font?
“weasel chomping on my privates” – From Google’s Hungarian site, no less. Guess Dave Barry fandom spreads around the world!
incompetent INTP – Yeah, I have to admit I feel that way myself sometimes… (And go figure; I’m on the first page of Google’s results, too.)
Free proofreader – I don’t think the Hall of Shame was quite what they were looking for. Though the content there may be considered proofreader-free…
FREE GRAMMAR & READ PROOF PROGRAM WITH SCREEN SHOT – Yes, the capitalization and spacing is exactly how it was entered. Need I mention this search request was from an AOL user?
cingular medication side effects – Wow. Talk about a phone company branching out. (I believe what they were trying to search for was the asthma medication called Singulair…)

And a special category; all of these searches led to the Proofreader’s Hall of Shame. You’ll see why:

Apparently this is a common misspelling– well, then, I say, more power to those who misspell it in their searches! 😉

Comments (9)

gosh, you’re famous! 😉

[random note: is it sad that I’m downloading “The Impossible Dream” for the fourth time and still not getting the version I heard a while back and liked?]

Comment by Toni — 10-Mar-2002 @ 9:25 pm
No; I’ve done that several times as well. It’s especially confusing in the electronic genre; there are so many remixes of any given song that it’s ridiculous sometimes…

Comment by codeman38 — 10-Mar-2002 @ 10:46 pm
i want to download super mario word and super mario free download game

Comment by ana henriquez — 06-Mar-2003 @ 9:57 pm
nenhum

Comment by Flavio costa — 19-Aug-2003 @ 10:22 am
I want to download super mario word and super mario free download game!!!

Comment by Edyta — 21-Sep-2003 @ 3:44 pm
i want to dowload mario game

Comment by Emmanuel Yankey — 06-Jan-2004 @ 4:10 am
es lo maximo

Comment by juan suarez — 21-Jan-2005 @ 4:04 pm
Hi every one, We are in Canada nad Us and looking to meet and invite other intp people to join our group at ; intpinternational@yahoogroups.com
Thanks and hope to hear from you all soon

Comment by Danielle — 28-May-2006 @ 2:38 pm
i need a proofreader always sometimes i write as weel as Shakespeare and sometimes i even don’t know where is the right place for a preposition may somebody help me

Comment by fle — 16-Aug-2007 @ 7:19 pm