This says a great deal about the Internet, and Western Civilisation.

[bunn]

I ran a search for 'Homer'.   I was looking for the author of the Iliad. 

This is what I got : https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Homer&hl=en&prmd=imvnsb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=mrcKUI6uGqP80QWp1Ly-Cg&ved=0CI4BELAE&biw=1600&bih=756

It made me laugh. Oh, Google Images search, why, WHY do you fail to read my brain this way?

Comments

[sally_maria]

I find Google is great for spell-checking unusual words or people's names, the kinds of things that don't appear in spell-checker dictionaries. I just do a quick search, and if I'm spelling it wrong it'll tell me.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That is quite useful. Where I often find I am struggling is when I am searching for someting that has multiple genuine meanings, and the one you want is the obscure one. Then you have to try to guess what other terms might appear next to it, which can be quite fiddly.

The image search is the worst, because with that, you are not only trying to guess what the obscure meaning of the word is, and what other obscure words might appear next to it, but also what words other people with pictures of the thing you want might use to describe it, which can seem to require a great deal of telepathy. :-/

[sally_maria]

Yes, I do know what you mean - sometimes it seems as if a lot of Linux software is designed with names that are intended to make it difficult to google.

Image search often throws up the oddest things for me, even if I'm not struggling with - no, I don't mean a mint plant, or a mint sweet...