It’s a weird world out there, and it keeps getting weirder, as this screenshot of a Google autocomplete demonstrates. Here’s Google’s explanation of how autocomplete works:

In some cases, there may be a search term that seems surprising to you, but after doing some searching on the web, you may discover that it’s a popular phrase online for some reason that you didn’t anticipate. Queries in Google Suggest are algorithmically determined based on a number of objective factors (including search term popularity) without manual intervention.

Given the events of the last few days, perhaps the result isn’t so surprising after all. (And Google’s search results for itself aren’t all that flattering either. HT: JOM

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