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Mischievous Monday Morning: Sometimes Auto-Complete Sucks…

Boris Written on 7th April 2008                                                                                                              6 COMMENTS some text
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:

Mischievous Monday Morning: Sometimes Auto Complete Sucks...

previously Dugg here.

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About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

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

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  2. By Wouter on Apr 7, 2008

    Ouch :)

    Reply

  3. By Robin on Apr 7, 2008

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

    Reply

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

    Hi Robin, glad you liked it.

    Reply

  5. By Lennaert on Apr 7, 2008

    Haha that’s funny ^.^

    Reply

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