A couple of years ago, a story on how a series of Google searches led to a visit by local authorities made its rounds online. My husband was looking for a backpack. You might just read a CNN piece about how bomb making instructions are readily available on the Internet and you will in all probability, if you are that kid, click the link provided.
The lesson learned? The safest course of action is to assume that someone always is. Even if many classifications are inaccurate, they can still harm you with effects like price discrimination, in which companies profile you and determine how much to charge you for goods or services. Choose an alternative search engine, like DuckDuckGo, to keep your search history from being recorded and analyzed.
Google displayed a Google Doodle on its home page Tuesday, demonstrating that one can safely Google the word 'Google' without causing the Internet to implode. September 27, Google is celebrating its 13th birthday Tuesday with a cake-themed Google Doodle. Click on the image, and Google will reveal something truly extraordinary: Google's search results for the word "Google. Until now, it was widely assumed that Googling "Google" would cause Google's servers to get bogged down in a vicious circle that would rapidly cascade through the entire Internet, creating a recursion paradox that would ultimately cause data centers around the world to spectacularly explode.
But apparently that doesn't actually happen. Instead, those who Google "Google" will simply get the search results for "Google," just as they would had they Googled any other word or phrase. This would have been rather useful information for technology journalists, especially those on deadline trying to search for information about the company using phrases like "a certain search giant," "you-know-what," and "that thing you really shouldn't type in this box lest you destroy the entire Internet.
Apparently Google has developed a number of safeguards to prevent such catastrophic failure. The company is famously secretive about its inner workings, but we can assume that these precautions involve deploying an artificial intelligence so advanced that it can appreciate the limits of its own computational logic. Other precautions probably involve not wiring explosives to its servers.
While Google's demonstration of stability in the face of infinite regress will no doubt have a wide impact, it is currently difficult to measure this impact on social networking platforms, which are running slowly today after some jerk tried to friend himself on Facebook.
Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. If you read enough of these accounts, your options for guilt-free dining could be severely limited, if you still have an appetite at all. Your belly button harbors what scientists have described as a "rainforest" of bacteria. This Google search term will yield pictures of insect bites and recently pierced, infected navels. Facebook reportedly can predict if you're going to break up with your significant other or if you're pregnant.
Sometimes Facebook even knows before you do. Maybe you'd rather not know any of this. If you're looking for a cure to insomnia, searching for "no sleep" won't help you. Instead, you'll wind up on Reddit's aptly-named horror story forum, and it will leave you jumping at any sudden movements. Make sure the lights are all on if you wander into this horrifying time sink. You may think this is high-school math term, but in the dental world, a calculus bridge also known as a tartar bridge is intense oral plaque buildup that can lead to receding gums and bad breath.
We wouldn't wish pictures of this dental malady on our worst enemy. Googling your favorite things, from pizza crust to grilled steak, followed by the word "cancer," will likely yield at least one shaky report linking that thing and the disease.
Even owning a dog has been linked to cancer by some sites If you're feeling ill, call your doctor. Spending any amount of time researching your symptoms online could easily convince you that your cold is actually a rare genetic disease or that an upset stomach is cancer. The Food and Drug Administration publishes a report detailing the maximum levels of rodent hairs, maggots and other horrible things legally permitted in your food.
If you'd rather not know how many beetles could be in your asparagus, don't Google this report. L-Cysteine is used in commercially produced bread. It's commonly synthesized from -- yes -- human hair collected from the floors of Chinese salons. It's hard enough to avoid " Game of Thrones " spoilers on the internet. Leaks of video and scripts from future episodes are ridiculously easy to find, if you're looking. If you want to maintain any element of surprise for the rest of the series, skip this search entirely.
Google can be very helpful, except when you can't unsee the results.
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