Want to hear a crazy fact:
There are something like 3.5 billion searches in Google worldwide every day. That’s roughly 40 thousand every single second.
Given those stats, some of them are bound to be a little…strange…like the ones people got talking about on this Reddit thread:
What’s something SFW that you’re embarrassed to have in your google search history?
byu/djc8 inAskReddit
Let’s get to the strange.
1. Yes.
Lol this was about 3 years ago ‘ive drank 12 cups of coffee in 3 hours, will I die’
– alongusername101
2. That’s amore.
Why does the moon have teeth?
I forgot to clarify in the search “the moon from Soul Eater” and if anyone reads that they’ll think I’m insane
– Zoology_Tome
3. That bites.
I saw a feature on the news about women with an underbite. It mentioned how some men actually find it particularly attractive.
Curiously, I googled ‘attractive women with an underbite’.The one, one time, my girlfriend wants to use my phone that Google and those search results spring straight up in chrome.
Now she thinks I have a fetish. ?♂️
– CodyDogg
4. Dun dun!
True crime junkie here, and I shudder to think what people would think if they saw my browser history composed of blood splatter information, how deep a certain knife can cut, etc etc
– hehadsomehorses
5. …what?
“Can babies see through their soft spot”
I’m pretty sure the answer to this is no, but I wanted to see if maybe there was an obscure study showing that in fact they had intracranial photoreceptors which could in theory be activated by light traveling through the fontanel, and in retrospect this is such a stupid idea that I feel bad wasting my employer’s time looking up the answer on Google.
– ThadisJones
6. The olden days.
I’ve talked about this before, but I used to work for kgbkgb, which was this text messaging service where you could text a number, ask any question, and get an answer. This was before smartphones became super huge, so it was a bit of a helpful gimmick back then.
However, for everyone that we got asking normal questions like movie times, or what restaurants were open near them, or stuff like that, we got A LOT more people asking very stupid things that I would have to Google. I have this album of a bunch of weird questions that people sent to us.
It was an interesting job that helped cover some things when I was in college, but it had me using Google for a lot of weird and embarrassing things.
– -eDgAR-
7. Memory is hard.
I’m a protein biochemist, but I still need to look up the 20 amino acid structures half the time.
I memorised them all for an undergrad exam, but have since forgotten them, as in the real world I can always look them up.
Also, the correct spelling of derailleur (part of a bike that changes the gears).
– twowheeledfun
8. Inception.
“Google”
– chrolloPT
9. But why?
I used to repeatedly search “sharks with braces” to the point where it automatically recommended it when I started typing “s” in the search bar.
– _world-domination_
10. Interesting!
“Were beaver fish in the middle ages?”
Sounds profoundly stupid, but there’s a reason. The monks started classifying all kinds of animals as “fish” so they could bend lent rules and eat meat.
– Beer_Doctor
11. Doesn’t add up.
Calculator history.
what’s 6×6?– Mini_Cheesecakes
12. Classic spell check.
How to spell simple words like “penguin” so that I don’t look like an idiot to my 6yo who I’m home schooling in lockdown.
– Analyst_Rude
13. Dark places.
When I worked a mental health-related job, I was always googling things like “sexual abuse of children,” “suicidal ideation,” “self harm” as well as many commonly used psychotropic meds and common street drugs.
All work-related searches.
– Sublingua
14. Web M.D.
“Inserts symptoms exacerbated by anxiety and boredom…
am I going blind? Am I losing my mind? Am I going to die soon and or irreversibly destroy my health?”Nope, just getting old.
– k4Anarky
15. Hot takes.
The amount of times I’ve had to look up the boiling time for hardboiled eggs is pretty embarrassing.
– RustyCopal
16. Makes sense.
How many times I’ve had to google “child enemas”.
My son has a colon condition, but man it would be awkward explaining it all.
– alwaysiamdead
17. Knowledge is power!
What does (insert word) mean
– prase0dym
18. Do the creep.
People I know. I don’t do it often but it always feels like snooping.
moudre_plus_de_rouge
19. Phrasing!
I was wondering who played the Russian guy in the movie Snatch so googled “Russian Snatch”.
– regulardave9999
20. Wed. Nes. Day.
always typing in Wednesday.
Just to make sure I spell it right.
– keindankeanke
21. With friends like these.
My friend and I are both a wealth of random, useless facts a few weeks ago he told me that if you rub pork fat on a cats lips the cat would whistle, and there was lots of videos of it on YouTube, like an idiot I fell for it and googled “cat whistling with pork fat on lips”
– yuckyfingers
22. Godspeed.
“how many kgs of blueberry cheese danish can I eat without getting diabetes”
I had to go look at my search history to for this question and I have no recollection of ever searching this up but it was there.
– draconicblur
23. I crave the lasagna.
“What is the name of the cat in Garfield”
– MickzzzBoi
24. Dream on.
Houses on Zillow.
Particularly in odd areas where there happens to be homes for sale.
I just look at them, with absolutely zero intention of buying it.
– willybean08
25. Hedge money?
How to pronounce hegemony.
Turns out I’ve been saying it wrong my whole life! Good thing it doesn’t come up much.
– Veritas3333
26. Unfortunate letters.
There’s a company that makes fire proofing material called STI.
I googled that and immediately regretted it.
– siegetip
27. False dichotomy.
I was helping clean out my grandparent’s estate last week, and I decided it was worth googling “vintage vibrator or curling iron?” before I went any further into their bathroom closet.
Spoiler Alert: It was a curling iron.
– NeedsMoreTuba
28. Sitting for dummies.
“How to sit on a couch correctly”
I have back pain and I feel like my couch sitting skills need to improve, but I still feel like a dummy for googling it.
– paperbackella
29. Game on!
My husband and I play this strange game where we ask each other random questions.
We guess at the answers and then look it up to see if either of us are close.
We’ve recently discovered that birds don’t fart but it’s very likely that spiders do!!
Lol our search histories would be quite comical at times.
– MommaStlouis
30. Well that seems unnecessary.
How to spell necessscacaveesseary
– puppies_horses_books
I always have to google the spelling of “ceiling.” I could live to be 1,000 and never get it right on the first try.
What about you?
Tell us your google blunders in the comments.
