What weird searches you made randomly that lead to unexpected things/places?

Recently I was bored and decided to search on amazon if it was possible to order a large idiot. Surprised enough, amazon did give me results for the book "the idiot" (large print) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I have never read anything made by Dostoyevsky, but now I am curious). So maybe I am going to read in the near future something I've never heard about and came by random search. What are your similar stories?

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 124d

For me, this usually happens when I'm looking for a particular book or doing research for one of my YouTube videos.

Case in point: Marginalia Search

I was making a video recently about Google alternatives and this one came up. It's weird and has an oddly specific use case: it's great at finding vintage websites, and this can be very useful if you have to repair something that is very old. (Or just need a whole different set of results for some reason, which is easy to achieve when your index is non-commercial.)

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 124d

Anything on TV Tropes ends up going down a rabbit hole

raldone01@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d

LaTeX still surprises me sometimes but then I quickly realize.

Same with rust you gotta put docs/lang or you get a wiki or forums which are about something else.

early_riser@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d

google "chubby drill".

this is not what you will get