ask.com

[solipsistnation]

ask.com has implemented a sort of question-autocompletion function. If you start to type in a question, it will attempt to figure out what you're going to ask, using, I'd guess, queries other people have typed in. This means you get a sort of weird cross-section of the internet-using public, and occasionally poignant little stories like this one:

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[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

A teenage girl with a self-image problem was just dumped by her asshole older boyfriend who may have gotten her pregnant, and now she needs to get rid of the 'private' photos they took before her parents find them.

[gower.livejournal.com]

Those are wonderful little poems. I like "How do I tell" also.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

For some moderately predictable banality, "why does love". The last one really makes it for me.

Also "who do i l". "why do i l" has a couple of mysterious entries in the middle.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

"when will my b"

[saintnobody.livejournal.com]

playing around with that, it seems like an awful lot of the suggestions have something to do with accidental pregnancy. their primary demo seems to be ignorant sluts. maybe they should have jane curtin do an endorsement.

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

Behold the wonders of abstinence only redstate education.

[pir.livejournal.com]

That's a kinda surreal set if you take them together and in order...

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

So after doing some terrible things, how do you forget someone? You format your hard drive! And how do you do that? Now you know!

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

Awww. That's quite sad, somehow. A Million Little Plays About The World.

[crossbonesdj.livejournal.com]

Demented and sad, but social!

[desertlover.livejournal.com]

How can a ...

When will ...

How should I . . .

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

Try "how should I get"

Oh dear....

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

goodness.

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to write up a mashup with that and eHow...