Comments on: A Woman’s Life In Search Queries

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By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:54:09 +0000

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Gee, I wonder what the fuck was in her yard that night.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:16:33 +0000

Thought you wrote this yourself! Thanks for sharing the most inspiring storyformat I’ve seen in years!

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By: Aldo

Aldo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:13:04 +0000

RE: Mr Dan

Search engine algorithms usually discard words like ‘the’ ‘how’ etc, unless it’s part of a quote-denoted phrase.It’s down to the way you index (and thus match) documents through the words within – these kinds of words are too common to be indexed as search terms. Although google does seem to do some intelligent matching – perhaps it recognises ‘how to’ as an important context phrase (you can do fancy stuff with indexing, like scoring words based on proximity to each other).

Also, I really shouldn’t reply to very old posts. Sorry. (work is boring ;) )

By: Abyss

Abyss — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:47:17 +0000

711391 lyrics to cheryl crow’s this is home 2006-03-04:

“I woke up this morning
Now I understand
What it means to give your life
To just one man
Afraid of feeling nothing
No bees or butterflies
My head is full of voices
And my house is full of lies

[chorus]
This is home, home
And this is home, home
This is home

I found your standing there
When I was seventeen
Now I’m thirty-two
And I can’t remember what I’d seen in you
I made a promise
Said it everyday
Now I’m reading romance novels
And I’m dreaming of yesterday

[Chorus]

I’d like to see the Riviera
And slow-dance underneath the stars
I’d like to watch the sun come up
In a stranger’s arms

[Chorus]

I’m going crazy
A little at a time
And everything I wanted
Is now driving me away
I woke this morning
To the sound of beating hearts
Mine is full of questions
And it’s tearing yours apart…”

By: Mr Dan

Mr Dan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:03:58 +0000

I just read this a second time and all the stuff I’ve already said still applies. This is still so very depressing though. I think many people would see a part of themselves within this woman, myself included, that’s what makes it so depressing. People don’t often reveal their private thoughts to others, so when you find a person that also has these horrible private thoughts it puts you at ease, but at the same time makes you terribly depressed because we’re all as bad as each other.

Oh and I must disagree with you saying “this woman doesn’t know how to use a search engine” due to her “talking” to it. I use Google in a similair way. If I wanted to learn how to paint a fence I’d type in “how to paint a fence” not simply “paint fence” because “how to paint a fence” will return a better result. Internet sites are based around writing and language. So typing in a sentence is more likely to bring back results.

By: J3553

J3553 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:38:06 +0000

711391 pentadact, AOL history, life in questions 2006-08-09

:O That would be pretty funny.

By: Mr Dan

Mr Dan — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:22:15 +0000

I think this is quite possibly one of the most interesting, funny and also depressing things i have read on the internet. It’s so damn human, i’ve no doubt that there are many similair search histories out there, that’s why it’s depressing.
I think one of the most interesting things about this is that you can almost totally know the woman by reading her searches, you know what type of person she is (deep down) and i guess it shows you the real her. Her husband probably comes home everynight to a woman that is nothing like the woman that searches.

By: bob_arctor

bob_arctor — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:48:52 +0000

My God. I am tired and hungover and presented with this slab of humanity, like every American suburb film and book rolled into one. Like something Gibson would do, a pretentious story told through the repeated anxious searches of a naive middle aged woman, going through her crisis.
It’s a piece of America, America under the surface, America online. Real people revealed and uncovered.

I hope this woman never finds out what happened. I hope she keeps on doing her misguided searches and never stumbles onto this.

She tries to stay close to God and raise her family, her face is conspiring against her, she types words into the search box of the rubbish AOL search because they listen to her, a form of expression, like a bizzare personal diary made public. The yearning for knowledge bringing confidence and advice, but in a way that will never lead to the right answers.

Has she got girlfriends who she can talk to? That would be better than AOL search.

And doctors who can discuss the various blemishes on her face.

Eager lesbian urges hidden behind a religious nuclear family.

Strange cosmos indeed.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:45:28 +0000

Telling much about myself, my favourite is:
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711391 masturbation with turkey baster 2006-03-19

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:53:31 +0000

What’s amazing is how so many of her bizarre queries then ended in search results she was willing to click on.

But really I can’t help but feel sorry for the poor woman.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:00:58 +0000

Cheers. I wondered for a moment if her husband occasionally uses the 711391 account, since there are a few stray queries like “should i confront my wife’s affair partner”, but these are very much in her style and made on the same night queries that are definitely hers, so I think she’s just trying to get his perspective after he finds out.

By: DTGumby

DTGumby — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:14:12 +0000

Just found your blog through Technocrati searching about 711391. Just thought you’d like to know that she’s also listed as 1702904. I’m not sure if this is her husband’s account that she accidently uses or another user name. She rarely used it.