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The Most Embarrassing Things People Have Ever Googled

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Reddit user b-secret asked: 'what is the most embarrassing thing you have ever Googled?'

I freely admit I'm of a certain age where my primary education occurred before the age of the internet—when our questions were answered with conversations with experts, encyclopedias or knowing how to use card catalogs.

My knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System is largely useless today.

Research is drastically different now—sorry Melvil Dewey. Internet search engines quickly became the difference between occasionally finding an outdated version of the information we were looking for and rarely not finding current information on the most obscure of topics.

Unless your Google game is super weak, you're likely to find what you're looking for or something close to it unlike the good old days when our chances were hit or mis—with lots of misses.

So what do we use this amazing, life-changing tool for?

Well...


Reddit user b-secret asked:

"What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever Googled?"

How Much?

"what's the alcohol percentage in 70% rubbing alcohol?"

~ LightsJusticeZ

"55% alcohol, 15% rubbing"

~ FishOfFishyness

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Who?

"I Googled my work because I couldn’t remember my boss’ name after working there for 8 months."

"I just blanked and couldn’t think of it."

~ HCxTC

Spellcheck

"I Google how to spell restaurant all the time."

~ ParkOk6450

"I'm like that but with Febuary."

"EDIT: February"

~ NeoNero_x

"I go into incognito mode to check spellings of words I should know how to spell."

~ LordCaptain

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Um, No.

"I was trying to find the name of those signs where a word is written down the side and each letter is used for a descriptive word."

"Confusing I know."

"So here’s an example: False Evidence Appearing Real"

"I know it has to have a name. So I googled 'Sign where every word starts with a letter' and Goggle responded with 'Did you mean a sentence?'.”

~ Team_Lift

Looks Like...

"Googled green beans once, was super high and forgot what they looked like."

~ testies2345

"I did the same thing with beets."

~ Jjetsk1_blows

green beans on brown wooden chopping board with chef's knife


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That Movie, With the Guy and the Stuff...

"I'll forget the name of a movie and just type in random sh*t I think I remember. Usually it works."

"Like 'that movie where the kid sleeps and has weird dreams and flies on a bed'."

"Works like a charm."

~ fohsupreme

Did They Have Blue Feet?

"big boobies"

"I was only 10."

"I was surprised to find some."

~ PoopPower99

"I’m 39 and I Google this every day."

~ dekkact

"They're nice birds but are they really worth Googling everyday?"

~ redwolf1219

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Predictive Text

"I used to search something like 'no clothes' or 'without clothes' or something like that when I was a kid."

"Then I learnt the word NAKED because of the TV show Naked and Afraid."

"Then searched it so many times that my autocorrect started to show that word first when I wanted to type something."

~ sniper8207

The Shade...

"I like to Google Bing or Duckduckgo when I need to use them."

~ Reboared

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NSF...S?

"My favorite band growing up was 'The Barenaked Ladies'."

"When I was at school, I once Googled them and clicked on a link that said 'free shows!'."

~ BW_Bird

Good Description

"I forgot what a 'gondola' was called so I typed in 'Thing that carries you through the mountains in a basket'."

~ TheGreatJaceyGee

"I once forgot the word for 'door' so my brain reached for adjacent concepts, smashed them together and threw them out my mouth: 'house portal'."

~ Tail_Nom

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It Just Doesn't Translate

"I have to search a random word 'auf Englisch' or a random word 'auf Deutsch'."

"Every damn day."

"It took me a minute to realize that there was no way to translate Schadenfreude into English."

~ grammar_fixer_2

Ah, Memories...

"I found out that as long as you're logged into Google, all your searches are saved to your Google account (I'm not talking about browser history)."

"So I looked back, and the 1st thing I ever googled after getting a Google account was 'Can ducks fly'."

"I've no idea why I googled this. I know ducks can fly."

~ caca__milis

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You Ate What‽‽

"Once I was with some friends and I was telling them about how when I was a kid we only got to eat nuts as a special treat around Christmas."

"Then I mentioned how much I liked squirrel nuts and no one knew what they were. So I Googled 'squirrel nuts' with image search."

"Not at all what we ate at Christmas time."

"Finally found out what my family called 'squirrel nuts' were actually called hazelnuts."

~ 123fofisix

100% NSFW

"A few years ago my coworker and I were looking at the calendar at work. It had pictures of birds and we were trying to figure out what kind of bird was pictured for that month."

"I can’t remember what she thought it was, but I darned sure it was a Great Tit."

"We have a great relationship and have been working together for a long time but we tend to argue like an old married couple. So we went to Mr Google for the answer."

"Let me tell you that Googling Great Tit at work isn’t something I will ever do again."

"For the record, I was right. The bird was a Great Tit."

~ pi11bott

Great Tit bird

Great Tit holds an insect in its beak

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Hope some of these folks remembered to clear their browser and search histories.

So, what's your hilarious—or embarrassing—little Google secret search?

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