Chicago Gets Googled

By Jake Guidry in Miscellaneous on Nov 20, 2009 8:40PM

It might seem far-fetched, but there actually \<a href=\"http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2212.html\"\>were coal mines located near (but not in) the city\<\/a\>

Google searchers like the gossip

The answer to the first question is debatable; the answer to the second question is \"No.\"

Even Google understands the roller coaster ride of being a Cubs fan

Google shows Oprah the haterade

And the same for Michael Jordan

Ouch.

Zero results? Just twisting the knife.

Earlier this week our good friends at Torontoist had a great idea about "Google Auto-Suggesting" themselves and fleshed it out in a rather funny post. The Auto-Suggest feature--essentially the 21st century's version of a palm reader--has been the object of web comedy for a little while (or 12 blog years) and it's the kind of idea that we wish we would have come up with first. But when you aren't innovative, the next best thing to do is copy the idea entirely, right? So, what did we learn about ourselves from Google's Auto-Suggest? We smell like chocolate, Google "gets" the Cubs, and people hate Oprah, Michael Jordan, and us. Ouch.