Mischievous Monday Morning: Sometimes Auto-Complete Sucks…

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.

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

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By Wouter on Apr 7, 2008

Ouch :)

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By Robin on Apr 7, 2008

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

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Apr 7, 2008

Hi Robin, glad you liked it.

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By Lennaert on Apr 7, 2008

Haha that’s funny ^.^

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