One of my favorite blogs these days is Autocomplete Me, an often hilarious site that catalogues funny and bizarre Google suggest queries.

Some of the suggestions that pop up are really baffling. For example, why are people asking “what do you feed a yeti anyway“? Why would someone search for “my nipples smell like sauerkraut“?

As Clive Thompson notes, many of these search queries are actually obscure cultural references. They might be a line from a movie or song, or an internet meme.

However, what’s interesting to me is what the stream-of-consciousness nature of these queries suggests about how we have begun to understand and use Google (and by extension, the internet). I find it fascinating that the internet is the first point of contact for so many people for any question or observation, and that we have become completely comfortable just typing things in (and anything goes) to see what sticks. It will be interesting to see how this tendency progresses as our technology gets even more sophisticated.