A bored Reddit user decided to take a peek at Google’s Facebook page. Amusingly, he came upon search queries where people had inadvertently (or possibly intentionally) posted to the fan page as opposed to searching Google.com – as you would assume most people would be familiar with by now.
More amusing is that the Reddit user decided to lend a hand and post the search results in the comments of each ‘search query’ post.
We’d like to believe that there can’t possibly be people out there who do in fact think Google’s Facebook page is a search engine; but as tech blog ReadWriteWeb found out not long ago, there are millions of Internet users out there who aren’t so, um, tech savvy, and for whom Facebook is in fact the Internet. So perhaps it’s not unbelievable…
The bad news? After posting the image above to Reddit, it led to all the genuine searches being buried while Reddit’s community swarms the page with bogus search queries. Some Google intern is going to have a whale of a time deleting those this weekend…
Google should create a custom FB landing page that has a search field in it. Problem solved
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LikeMeh, some people out there still believe that the internet begins and ends with AOL's front end. For a long time, my parents did everything through MSN's frontend. I'm not saying this is good, but it is believable.
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Likeoh, man, FACEBOOK IS NOT THE INTERNET for god's sake! GOOGLE IS!
Imagine a world without Google....
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LikeGabriel Pudiza And only Facebook? Saddest world.
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LikeGabriel Pudiza I would kill myself, all the stupidity that comes out Facebook ugh... - We need you Google!
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Like"there are millions of Internet users out there who aren’t so, um, tech savvy, and for whom Facebook is in fact the Internet." - These are simply people following the vision of Zuck
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LikeCD trays were seen as cup holders to some. Doesn't surprise me.
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LikeWhen I was searching for Read Write Web's Facebook Page within Facebook. I was surprised that the search didn't show the fan page unless you type readwriteweb with no spaces.
I was so bored I built https://www.facebook.com/pages/Read-Write-Web-Fan-Page-is-not-here-but-Ill-show-you-the-link/227006200678097?sk=info which comes up instead now.
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Likelol duhhhhhhh
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LikeWell, they're probably trying to tell everybody what kind of funny things they're searching, and as I just checked right now, people over there are taking it to Reddit. I love it :D
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LikeConversation from Twitter
RT @ric_rac Googling on Google's Facebook Page [funny] http://t.co/1frwOXaz
rickysalsberry awesome.
hansenwithane I'm sure my parents were culprits. I just hope it wasn't then who searched for 'taco bell'
jsamps search pictures of chicken strat, if that isn't a case study, I don't know what is
jessebrightman I might retire chicken strat in 2012... So many other possibilities
jsamps you better not, then we wouldn't have anything to talk about
ShareefJackson summify thenextweb GabrielleNYC Just followed BeardCall
journalistguy Totalni LOL ., daj Jeliću, take a day off of goooogling whats goin' on on google! :D :p
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The Next Web does this allude to who is winning the Facebook vs. Google battle?
This is one tech joke that should go viral :-)
open a link on google plus then share it on facebook =)
I checked, you're right! It's like a wasteland over there! :|
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Oy!