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By: Tinna G. Gígja

Tinna G. Gígja — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:59:23 +0000

“Americans are”, “canadians are”, “the french are” show nothing, but “israelis are” and “palestinians are” show mixed suggestions.

“Gay people are” gives “gay people are gay” as the second suggestion.

I found the results for “snopes is” both reassuring and worrying. The ones for “Iceland is” are slightly bizarre, as is the third one for “greenland is”.

Sorry, I’m having way too much fun with this.

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:47:56 +0000

I thought the results for “agnostics are” was funny too.

By: Tinna G. Gígja

Tinna G. Gígja — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:49:35 +0000

I thought it was weird too that nothing came up for islam or muslims…”the quran is” brings up two positive and two negative ones (although the first one is a bit stupid), and “Allah is”, “islam will” and “islam should”, as well as “muslims will” and “muslims should”, all bring up plenty of “insults”, so if trying to prevent insult was the goal, they didn’t do it too thoroughly. F*ing Jihad on them!

The suggestions for “Google is”, “The meaning of life is”, and the last one for “Hitler is” made me laugh.

By: Kelseigh

Kelseigh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:45:19 +0000

The first choice for “Barack Obama is” made me laugh out loud.

By: St. Eutychus » Google has all the answers

St. Eutychus » Google has all the answers — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:10:14 +0000

[...] Friendly Atheist thought it was pretty funny that Google says mean things about some Christian leaders when you type their names and “is” using Google’s [...]

By: Dan W

Dan W — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:08:00 +0000

That’s amusing, to be sure. What’s irritating is what pops up if you type in Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or other well known “new” atheists. Similarly, typing in “atheists are” gets 10 completions, the first 7 of which are rather unfavorable: wrong, going to hell, fools, ignorant, immoral, retarded, not citizens… *sigh*

By: Philbert

Philbert — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:56:26 +0000

Funny. If you try “Islam is” or “Muslims are”, you get nothing.

You’re right! First suggestions for “X is a”:

Christianity – cult, lie, hoax
Judaism – race, religion of the book, gutter religion
Buddhism – religion, lie, cult
Hnduism – way of life, joke, lie
Pastafarianism – religion (sole answer)
Atheism – religion, non-prophet organization, religion like collecting stamps is a hobby

Islam –

Google’s got nothing for Islam.

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:18:18 +0000

Jerry Falwell is particularly amusing.

So is Barack Obama.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:08:03 +0000

Jerry Falwell is particularly amusing.

By: Sackbut

Sackbut — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:05:39 +0000

While we’re on Google, have you ever tried doing a search for “recursion”? (Will particularly appeal to geeks.)

"Did you mean recursion" Ha! Thanks for the tip.