I think the funniest search that I ever came across is “can I catch autism from an autistic hooker?” There are so many things wrong with that one, and I haven’t found one better yet.

I actually started documenting some of these crazy searches at searchoftheday.com, and I post a couple dozen a week usually.

One thing I never thought of was how crazy the search referrals to that site would be. I post some crazy search and the next thing I know I’m getting a bunch of traffic from equally deranged searchers, so now it’s actually feeding on itself, which is very strange to watch – it’s like an organism now.

Incidentally, I wouldn’t feel too bad. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there with old, infirm cats who are just looking up information on what is involved in euthanizing them, more because they want to make sure their cats are put to sleep humanely rather than out of some sort of prurient interest. It’s not like people are doing it for fun and profit (and if they are, they aren’t using the term “euthanize”).

Early on I did a post about a talk regarding DeKalb County euthanizing cats and dogs and couldn’t believe how many people out there searched for things like “how to euthanize a cat.” Shutter.