Tag Archives: words

YouTube “AutoFill” on Homepage: Suggests Graduates from Google Labs

Screen grab of Google Suggests- an automatic fill that appears real time to suggest searches based on previous onesGoogle knows what you’re going to search for even before you turn on your computer.

Google Suggests (see definition) — which is a real-time ‘auto-fill’ of your search words based on typical searches — is now part of a typical Google homepage search.

The tool “graduated” from Google Labs according to a recent post on the official Google blog. YouTube’s search engine has been facilitating this “suggest” functionality for some time, which helped me discover that searches for my name often accompany the word “fart” or “charlie.”

 Oh- here’s the wikipedia listing for YouTube celebrities that appears in the screen grab.

eBaums Features My Worst Video Ever… L33t Dwarf Horses

eBaums featured my worst video ever a few hours ago. It’s called “l33t dwarf horses,” and it’s a parody of “Internet gaming speak.” It was inspired by DigitalPh33r (see recent post on him). For more about l33t, see this Wikipedia entry. Or the Urban Dictionary version of it.

eBaums must have ripped the video from some website, and posted it. So I just set up my own Nalts account, posted the same video, and asked them to provide correct attribution.

Then again, with 224 scathing comments (in just four hours) and a 1/5 star rating, maybe I don’t want credit…