Editing Talk:155: Search History

Here's a [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/aol-search-log.php link] to the somethingawful page mentioned in the title text ([http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/aol-search-log-2.php part 2], [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/aol-search-log-3.php part 3]). {{unsigned ip|‎141.70.81.143}}

People of the distant future, [https://i.imgur.com/RnwhGYm.png this] is what google looked like today. [[User:Kripmo|Kripmo]] ([[User talk:Kripmo|talk]]) 00:50, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
:Knock knock, distant future here: hardly anything had changed. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.82|108.162.221.82]] 15:03, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Google actually looked like that?! Truly, the modern world is a wonderful place, compared to the drop-shadow hellscape pictured in this comic. Just look at all that font hinting, and no anti-aliasing in sight! The horror! <span style="background:#0064de;font-size:12px;padding:4px 12px;border-radius:8px;">[[User talk:AgentMuffin|<span style="color:#f0faff;">~AgentMuffin</span>]]</span>

Should we create a table explaining each one? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.47.6|172.68.47.6]] 01:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
:Yes! I know what I will be doing for the rest of this lesson. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 09:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

It has been just shy of five years since Kripmo's. Google has changed very little, the fonts having slimmed down slightly and very little else. 

Either they have reached stability or it has not been long enough. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.38.98|172.68.38.98]] 03:06, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

I think the table is in the wrong order. It makes more sense for Randall to search "robert bakker paleontologist" first before moving on to the more specific query about bakker. Similarly, it makes more sense for the more general search term "raptor" to be search before more specific queries about types of raptors. Finally, if read top to bottom, the search results present a reasonable line of thought that gradually devolves into absurdity, a common theme that shows up across xkcd comics. I know that this is the opposite of how actual google searches would be presented in real life, but it's reasonable to think that Randall would have sacrificed exact accuracy in favor of a more easily readable format. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.104|108.162.210.104]] 05:53, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
:In google, the most recent search terms are on the top. I did the table with the most recent on the bottom, to make it easier to follow. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 10:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
:Although yes, [[Randall_Munroe|Randall]] didn't seem to pay much attention to how the searches were organised. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 12:43, 17 December 2020 (UTC)