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Muzer
7 Feb 2007, 19:47
I googled forum and it had about 3 results and then it said:
See results for: forum snowboards (http://www.google.com/search?q=forum+snowboards&revid=479577786&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&ct=revision&cd=1)

then it had loads of snowboarding forums. WTF? Why the hell does it think I want snowboarding forums!?


EDIT: Here's a zoomed out screenie in opera without menu bars:


EDIT2: WTF???? The forum software turned it into a JPG!!!!
Liketyspli
7 Feb 2007, 19:53
Uhm... very interesting...? i guess...
Plasma
7 Feb 2007, 20:32
...and what were you really looking for?
Melon
7 Feb 2007, 21:10
I'm far more interested in the Gumtree chatrooms.

-EDIT- I checked the site and it's not actually about gum trees at all. That's a dissapointment. The humour is lost. I have failed.
bonz
7 Feb 2007, 22:07
I don't get it.
Which results were you expecting to get with the keywords forum snowboards?

The #1 is obviously the snowboard brand name "Forum", followed by lots of stores and community pages that probably list the same brand name.
M3ntal
7 Feb 2007, 23:02
No, he means he searched for "forum" and it gave him snowboarding sites. I think what you have noticed that he didn't though, is that Forum is a brand of snowboards, which would explain why.
Plainplane
18 Feb 2007, 02:41
This is very strange. However, I searched forum on Google and got 88,800,000 results consisting of different forums.
Then again, I have not heard of the Opera internet browser.

Plainplane :)
franpa
18 Feb 2007, 05:55
http://www.opera.com/
MtlAngelus
18 Feb 2007, 07:30
This is very strange. However, I searched forum on Google and got 88,800,000 results consisting of different forums.
Then again, I have not heard of the Opera internet browser.
It's not strange, M3ntal over there has pretty much explained why this happened. There is a brand of snowboards named "Forum" so when you search "forum" on google, it'll suggest that you were perhaps aiming for Forum snowboards.

And I don't think it being displayed in Opera has any effect at all.
What does affect the results is which language you are viewing Google in, for example, if I go to Google Mexico and search for forum, it doesn't display the snowboards thing.
franpa
18 Feb 2007, 12:05
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=forum&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-43,GGGL:en
Muzer
18 Feb 2007, 12:28
It's only ggogle.com that does it.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=forum&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Metal Alex
18 Feb 2007, 15:37
Most useful search, ever (http://www.google.es/search?source=ig&hl=es&q=google&btnG=Buscar+con+Google&meta=)
Muzer
19 Feb 2007, 15:52
That reminds me of something in "Loads More Lies to tell Small Kids":
If you type the word 'Google' into Google...

...the resultant 'logic loop' will cause reality to fold in on itself and the universe will collapse into an infinitely dense dot