Is…? – the things people ask Google

“Don’t Google the question, Moss!”
The IT Crowd

Always a great insight into the occasionally bizarre things people ask Google, this. Start to enter a search at google.co.uk and the autocomplete feature gives you a list of suggestions. For the search “is “, this is what comes up…

• is santa real
• is harry on the boat
• is tonsillitis contagious
• is holly willoughby pregant
• is cheryle cole pregnant
• is wiley dead
• is it christmas
• is limewire illegal
• is shingles contagious
• is shakira dead

So, is this person dead, can I catch something nasty from the person next to me at work who just coughed suspiciously, and is this person pregant.

Enter just another letter and it continues – selected suggestions when entering “is a”, “is b” etc:

• is a banana a herb
• is a peanut a nut
• is blood blue
• is ben collins the stig
• is batman dead
• is dubai a country
• is fish meat
• is god real
• is guiness good for you
• is jamie lee curtis a hermaphrodite
• is kissing cheating
• is lady gaga a man
• is my dog pregnant
• is she really going out with him
• is tupac dead
• is tupac alive
• is urine sterile
• is urine flammable

That last search, I assume, is being run by people about to go camping, and concerned they’ll blow their bits off when they put the campfire out.