Google poetics

 It's Nice That  posted an interesting project today, created by Sampsa Nuotio and Raisa Omaheimo. For me it is one of those "why didn't I think of that?"-moments.
It is called Google Poetics.
Everyone who has used Google-search would instantly recognize the case when Google gives you interesting, peculiar autocomplete-suggestions based upon the beginning of your question and what other people have searched for. In this blog those funny, weird predictives are highlighted and viewed as poems.

Nuotio and Omaheimo's words:
'(..)The Google autocomplete suggestions are based on previous searches by actual people all around the world. In the cold blue glow of their computer screens, they ask “why am I alone” and “why do fat girls have high standards”. They wonder how to roll a joint and whether it is too early to say “I love you”. They seek information on ninjas, cannibals, and Rihanna, and sometimes they just ask “am I better off dead?”

Despite the seemingly open nature of Western society, forbidden questions and thoughts still remain. When faced with these issues, people do not reach out to one another, instead they turn to Google in the privacy of their own homes. The all-knowing search engine accepts and embraces these questions and tangles them with popular song lyrics, book titles and names of celebrities: often with hilarious results. (..)'