Thursday, May 25, 2006

Erotic exoticism

For reasons that let's not go into, I did a Google search on "exotic punishments". And yes, I spelt it right. Even so, I got a lot of hits not just for "exotic punishments" but also "erotic punishments". The "erotic" was highlighted, showing that Google must have treated it as a search term.

I'm a little disturbed by this. Does Google equate exotic and erotic? Or does it just know from bitter experience that a lot of people who type one word mean the other, so it proactively caters for their need?

Either way, if you search for exotic holiday destinations then you're presumably in for a surprise.

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