Recent Google hits from a certain IP address:
"Do Huck Finn learned that slavery are wrong?" "Do Huck Finn learning that slavery is wrong?" "Do Huck Finn learns that slavery is wrong?" "In Huck Finn is slavery are wrong?"
"Do Huck Finn learned that slavery are wrong?"
"Do Huck Finn learning that slavery is wrong?"
"Do Huck Finn learns that slavery is wrong?"
"In Huck Finn is slavery are wrong?"
Only in Huck Finn, Mr. President. Only in Huck Finn.
The Executive Googler doesn't know how to make good Google queries. Surely "Huck Finn slavery wrong" would be more appropriate.
Posted by: Naadir Jeewa | Sunday, 07 October 2007 at 05:12 PM
Hmm, is this incredibly creepy, or cause for hope? (I mean, HF _is_ a lot longer than My Pet Goat. And no pictures, either.)
Posted by: Sisyphus | Sunday, 07 October 2007 at 05:37 PM
Naadir: You'd be surprised how many people Google complete sentences. The Executive Googler probably doesn't know how to Google better than, say, your average plagiarist. Come to to think of it, he was exactly the sort of student who would've been a serial plagiarist: wealthy, entitled, and not altogether bright. Between Google and paper mills, he wouldn't have written a paper his entire undergraduate career.
Sisyphus: Sadly, he probably sympathizes with Tom more than Huck at the end: after all, Huck wants to ruin his Great Romantic Adventure. Wow, now that I think about it, there's an actual, honest-to-Christ serious reading to be had there. Be right back.
Posted by: SEK | Sunday, 07 October 2007 at 06:19 PM
He must not have watched the movie version that came out in the 1990s sometime. At one point Jim turns to the title character and says: "Slavery is wrong, Huck."
Posted by: eb | Monday, 08 October 2007 at 01:11 AM
"he" should be "whoever did the searches".
Posted by: eb | Monday, 08 October 2007 at 01:14 AM
I never knew about this DomainTools' "Whois Source" before today. Awesome.
But, okay, now this is mean ... The query had to come from Jenna. It just had to. - TL
Posted by: Tim Lacy | Monday, 08 October 2007 at 03:57 PM