Introducing... Autocomplete Me

Autocomplete has finally achieved cultural relevance with Autocomplete Me, a collection of the most ridiculous phrases found in the Google autocomplete box, e.g.,...

...and so on.

I'm not sure if anyone at Google was listening, but six years ago this month - well before the launch of autocomplete - I proposed the term "googlephrasing" for a sort of manual version of the feature:

Search Google for a long, slightly obscure sentence fragment, enclosed in quotes, and then revel in the Web-zeitgeist.

Examples included phrases like "there's absolutely no reason to believe ... that drag racers will police themselves", which would have made a decent entry in Autocomplete Me.

But it was not to be. Googlephrasing was just a few years ahead of its time... like so many potentially world-changing innovations. (Kidding.)

• Mar 5, 2010
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