Why Are?.. – Presented By Google [PICTURES]

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:39:00 +0000

Recently, I decided to conduct a Google experiment and write down what the search engines suggests for the phrase "why are" followed by all kinds of nationalities, races, and localities (alright, "recently" seems to be last March, as evident from the Google theme, but I only decided to post this now).

I did this just for fun and found most of the results funny, some hilarious, and some offensive and controversial.

However, all of them have a reason for being there – statistics. It's what people search for. The cream of the crop. Stereotypes, hilarities, it's all here.

If you can, please don't take them too close to heart. In fact, if you're a righteous conservative thinking of lecturing me, do me a favor and close this page now.

So here goes.

Why Are?..

"Why are canadians"

Afraid of the dark? – I didn't know that, thanks Google.

"Why are brazilian"

Agreed.

"Why are swedish"

Also agreed.

"Why are irish"

Heh.

"Why are palestinians"

"Why are israeli"

Another

And the women… true again.

"Why are mexican"

Ouch.

"Why are hawaiians"

I can think of a few reasons.

"Why are germans"

I can attest to the rude part.

"Why are italians"

We've all seen the movies.

"Why are japanese"

Have you seen a non-weird Japanese video?

"Why are chinese"

The truth is there somewhere.

"Why are russians"

Very observational.

"Why are koreans"

Starcraft – so true.

"Why are british"

This is hilarious.

"Why are spanish"

100% correct.

"Why are polish"

This one was frankly news to me. Poor Polish people.

"Why are indians"

Indians are afraid of dogs?

"Why are armenians"

I've never seen a non-hairy Armenian.

And something more generic, without comments.

"Why are white"

"Why are black"

"Why are asians"

And something more local.

"Why are new yorkers"

"Why are texans"

Of course I saved the best for last:

"Why are americans"

Central Room of Potatoes

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:31:07 +0000

Today Travis was messing around with a Chinese site blinkx has indexed a short while ago http://www.tudou.com and saw a cryptic error message that started coming up on all pages. The message looked something like this:

各位土豆：
为了给大家提供更好的服务，我们正在搬迁扩建土豆的中心机房。
3月14日凌晨0:00 ~ 夜间24:00，我们的服务暂停24小时。
3月15日凌晨0:00 新机房就搬迁完成了，土豆会准时回家。

Now, neither Travis nor I know the language of Chinese, so what do we do? Go to Google Translate, of course. Here's what Google Translate produced:

That's:

Members potatoes:
In order to provide you with better service, we are expanding the relocation of the central room of potatoes.
March 14 at 0:00 to 24:00 at night, our services will be suspended for 24 hours.
March 15 at 0:00 new room on the relocation is complete, potatoes will be time to go home.

No wonder the servers went down, being powered by potatoes from a central room of potatoes and all. I guess expanding to a larger room of even more potatoes was the only way out.

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