My computer gave away my secretsA good friend recently found out his girlfriend was pregnant when google autocomplete came up with 'symptoms of pregnancy'...
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chthonic, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 10:58)
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2 parents, 2 medium embarassing momentsA few years ago, when I was still brand new to this computer malarkey, my mum wanted to know the lottery results, and asked me to Google the site. She was standing over my shoulder as I typed in the "L" of "Lottery results", and for the split second before the "o" was entered, autocomplete offered a bouquet of more than 30 search terms, all starting with "lesbian". There followed a loud cracking noise as my hand broke the sound barrier in its approach of the aforementioned second key. She pretended not to notice.
These days I make people go away when I Google stuff for them.
Also, in the early days of p2p downloading (with KaZaA, the giant pile of spyware shite that it was) my stepdad forgot to remove the history after an all-night downloading party. Finding one file with the word "l0l1ta" in the name scared the shit out of me, but a friend I got to download it for me (no damn way I was watching it) confirmed it was one of those files that have as many keywords shoved into their name as possible. Phew.
Scarred for life from these events, and you've re-opened the wounds, b3ta, you bastards.
(, Sat 11 Feb 2006, 20:54, Reply)
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