Dogpile Users Are Trying to Escape from the County Jail to Play Piano for Santa

county jail inmate search Dogpile Google Piano Sheet Music Suggested Search

by Robert Quigley | 1:41 pm, January 25th, 2010

The New York Times‘ Bits Blog has a neat post in which they run through Google suggested search and see what the first suggested results are for each letter of the alphabet. So: A is Amazon, B is Best Buy, C is Craigslist, D is Dictionary.com, et cetera. Bits expresses surprise that Hotmail nabbed the H, but: nothing too surprising.

We thought: why not run the same experiment on an obscurer, lower-volume search engine and see what happens. For whatever reason, we picked metasearch engine Dogpile. The results were pretty random. A was still Amazon, but: the top result for B was “bath body works coupons.” C was “county jail inmate search.” It got even stranger from there:

A: Amazon

B: bath body works coupons

C: county jail inmate search

D: download microsoft word

E: ebay

F: face book login (#2: “funny christmas poems”)

G: google

H: horoscope

I: inmate search

J: jail inmate

K: kohls

L: leo

M: mapquest (#2: “miley cyrus dress up game”)

N: new moon

O: office christmas party games

P: piano sheet music

Q: quotes life

R: resume objectives sample

S: song search by lyrics

T: track down santa claus

U: unemployment claim filing

V: virgo

W: walmart

X: THERE IS NO X

Y: youtube

Z: zip code directory

(h/t Bits for the idea; image via rustybrick’s Flickr)

LVK

This is absolutely amazing. My personal favorite is M #2.
Robert Quigley

“Piano Sheet Music” tickles my funny bone for some reason.
aidriiyan

Funny. “Track down santa claus” is the funniest

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James Plafke For a show about a sport I don't really dig, Friday Night Lights is an alright show.
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Eric Limer Just spent a few hours playing Kyntt. Stunning, cute little game. Highly recommended.
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Max Wanna create work flows, wanna make it all work work work.
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James Plafke I am jealous Elmo got to make out with Kristin Chenoweth.
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Eric Limer I swear under my breath A LOT. This must make people near by me very uncomfortable. That being said, I have no intentions of stopping.
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Max Court is now in session at the Burp Castle.
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Eric Limer I don't look at my finances as often as I should which is the main reason why I don't often want to look at my finances.
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Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
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Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
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Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
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Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
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James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
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Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
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Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
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James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
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Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
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Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
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Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
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Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
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