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Mischievous Monday Morning: Sometimes Auto-Complete Sucks…

Boris Written on April 7, 2008 – 9:44 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

This is a live screenshot from a Turkish television show where the host wants to type in ‘Youtube’ (on a story about hidden camera recordings of some government officials) but gets a few unfortunate suggestions from his browser Auto Complete feature:

previously Dugg here.

I hope you like that post!

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6 comments/trackbacks to “Mischievous Monday Morning: Sometimes Auto-Complete Sucks…”

  1. Apr 7, 2008: The Dangers of Auto Complete « Twisty McGee’s

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  2. Apr 10, 2008: i[am]roberto » Blog Archive » YouPorn en lugar de YouTube

    [...] ¡AUTOCOMPLETAR las direcciones web puedo jugar muy malas pasadas! Jaja. Supongo que rodase alguna que otra cabeza (Visto en TheNextWeb) [...]

  1. By Wouter on Apr 7, 2008

    Ouch :)

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  2. By Robin on Apr 7, 2008

    Wow, amazing.. … NOT!
    That’s called research..?

    [Reply]

  3. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Apr 7, 2008

    Hi Robin, glad you liked it.

    [Reply]

  4. By Lennaert on Apr 7, 2008

    Haha that’s funny ^.^

    [Reply]

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