Autocomplete the election

Autocomplete the election

Mumbrella provided the LOLs today with a piece on Google’s autocomplete suggestions for some of the federal election’s major players. It seems the web finds the NSW premier easier on the eye than her predecessor…

And the PM’s refusal to let her lack of faith alter her views on equal marriage rights appears to be top of mind online:

Hot, censoring atheists: Googles insight into what punters think about pollies and journos    Julia Gillard Google

An opinionated columnist’s May 2010 twitter spat with a heckler, in which she accused @justinbarbour of improper rodent relations, continues to haunt her:

Hot, censoring atheists: Googles insight into what punters think about pollies and journos    miranda devine google

I did a few searches of my own and discovered that Catherine is not the only mega-mouthed microblogger with a claim on lasting twinfamy:

And Senator Bob Brown’s pronouncement of Jimi Hendrix’s death in his former life as a London doctor is still more fascinating than all his tree-hugging and Bush-bashing after all these decades:

brown google

If only Google, and not journos, supplied the questions for the debate, it would have knocked any cooking show out of the ratings water.

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