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This can be very simple: 1. A bored male person opens the site and types the first thing that comes to his mind in the search box. 2. Website records this as
by superjan 4y ago
This can be very simple:
1. A bored male person opens the site and types the first thing that comes to his mind in the search box.
2. Website records this as a new search and suggests it at random to new visitors.
3. Curious people click it, interested to see what the site will respond.
4. Website notices it is a popular suggestion! Suggests it to more people.
5. GOTO 3.
I have seen similar bizarre (though not offensive) suggestions in google search.
My colleage typed: “how do I” and google suggested “how do i make my girlfriend hold her hand in front of a screen and pretend she’s a dinosaur”. (Or something like it). Someone typed it once, and if it is a random suggestion it gets clicked by about everybody.
- TremendousJudge 4y agoFor several years, searching "client/server database" on Google would return a first result for a web page with a pretty explicit description of a sex act, and then a million results referencing this page. At some point they fixed it, and evidence that this ever happened is hard to find. It survives in an urban dictionary entry[0]. I suspect the cause was pretty similar to what you describe. [0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=client%2Fserver%20database https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=client%2Fser...