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Is there anything that you won't search on the web?

Asked by imrainmaker (8380points) May 30th, 2016

For every tiny thing / piece of advice or whatever people tend to search on the internet. Is there any thing that you won’t search on the internet?

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Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Yes. Child pornography is the first to come to mind.

imrainmaker's avatar

Yeah..you shouldn’t.

ragingloli's avatar

How to build a suicide bomber vest to attack the white house and kill obama.
allahu akbar death to america.

Joell's avatar

Anything that lands me spending my weekend in an interrogation room with the police. Wait I’d have to see the list of such stuff on the internet!

ucme's avatar

Blue waffle :(

jca's avatar

Yesterday I was getting on the highway in CT and there was a tough looking group of motorcycle guys getting on. They had vests on with the name of a bike gang that I had never heard of. I went home and googled it, and then I thought to myself “I wonder if this is going to the FBI or something and now I’m going to come up as having searched this terroristic bike gang.” Too late.

Dutchess_III's avatar

“Naked ladies in a row boat in Holland.” I won’t search for that .

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

Health symptoms

Mimishu1995's avatar

Where my stuff is.

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

There are plenty of things I won’t search, but it’s not safe to talk about that here.

Pachy's avatar

Like @ARE_you_kidding_me, I tend to avoid searching for health info. It seems counter-intuitive, considering the amount of such info available online. But what I’ve discovered is that the info is usually wildly contradictory and is either scary or calming. Either way, blindly believing anything of a medical nature without consulting a professional is risky.

jca's avatar

I also find that with a lot of health info, @Pachy, it seems like different sites just copy and paste one site’s info, so that the result is many sites say the exact same thing.

I also found that when researching a type of frog that I own. Down to certain phrases, each site said the exact same thing.

imrainmaker's avatar

@firemadeflesh – Overwhelming response to that thread..but most of them moderated..Is that question with record no. of responses / any other thread you know of?

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

@imrainmaker I don’t remember any longer ones. Back around the time I joined there was a marriage proposal on here, and that thread was the biggest party this site has seen. I think there were several hundred responses, but it wasn’t quite as long as the CIA thread.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Did the CIA thread deserve that insane moderation? Or was it part of the game?

@FireMadeFlesh You’ve not seen this? 2660 ridiculousnesses since 2011.

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

@Dutchess_III I’d never come across that thread. I was a bit late to the party with the CIA thread too, so I never saw most of the responses.

Dutchess_III's avatar

The “hijack” question is still going, so jump in! If you click on it, just be prepared to go paint the living room or save the world while it opens.

I missed out on ALL the good ones, except this iconic thread. Go Janet!

Coloma's avatar

I’ve had plenty of bad surprises just searching innocent stuff. Once I was looking for a potato recipe and a link for “Potatoes and Jelly” came up. I clicked it and it was some dude that had stuffed a giant potatoe up his ass and the doctors had him in stirrups trying to pull it out with a pair of 2 foot long forceps. Seriously…WTF!

That image is forever branded in my mind for all of eternity.
I certainly will not be searching for objects up the ass in the ER. lol

imrainmaker's avatar

@coloma – LOL..)

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