Recently I was bored and decided to search on amazon if it was possible to order a large idiot. Surprised enough, amazon did give me results for the book “the idiot” (large print) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I have never read anything made by Dostoyevsky, but now I am curious). So maybe I am going to read in the near future something I’ve never heard about and came by random search. What are your similar stories?

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I was searching YouTube for “corona ball” which is a metal sphere you stick on the end of a transmitting antenna. This was in 2020, so I got this instead, which lives rent free in my head now.

  • raldone01@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    LaTeX still surprises me sometimes but then I quickly realize.

    Same with rust you gotta put docs/lang or you get a wiki or forums which are about something else.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    For me, this usually happens when I’m looking for a particular book or doing research for one of my YouTube videos.

    Case in point: Marginalia Search

    I was making a video recently about Google alternatives and this one came up. It’s weird and has an oddly specific use case: it’s great at finding vintage websites, and this can be very useful if you have to repair something that is very old.