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Me: How long can sharks live

Google: I need to customize this result to your current location

Me: That's clearly wrong and if it's right then it's terrifying

Image transcription: Google search: Shark life expectancy Google: See results closer to you? Use precise location


(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone know how I can get Gpogle to permanently stop asking me this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stop using Google?

(I know that sounds obnoxiously snarky but honestly I doubt there’s any other way.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ya know, deep in my heart I knew this was the one and only answer I’d get to my question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If there are sharks in Lake Ontario then something has gone very wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

or, in the opinion of one person whom they called mad at the university, very very right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago