My recent Google searches

A recent episode of the Reply All podcast had a few of the hosts digging into each others search history. The results were interesting and funny, so I thought I’d dig back the past few weeks of mine to see what kind of interesting things I’ve been looking for. You can find yours (if you use Google) on this page: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Here are some of mine that I thought were noteworthy:

onomatopoeia
I saw this come up in conversation, but it’s a word I often can’t remember, so I looked up the official definition to put into my Anki collection.

alien head suckers fortnite
I play a bit of Fortnite with my daughter, and the new season has these alien parasites that clamp onto your head and slowly kill you. I didn’t know what they were called or how to get rid of them, so this was my first search in that trail.

stunning image of a blue whale under a small fishing boat
Someone posted an amazing image of a blue whale just under a small fishing boat, but it seemed photoshopped so I was investigating a bit.

windows 11 release date
I’ve heard lots of buzz about Windows 11, so I was curious when it would be released (this coming winter).