Hank asks viewers to Google 'is Hank Green awesome' until autocomplete suggests it (2010)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2011-01-28) · owner: Hank
On the last day of 2010, finding that nothing autocompleted for 'is Hank Green', Hank asked viewers to Google 'is Hank Green awesome'. A few days later it worked on Bing but not Google, and by late January 2011 Google suggested it too.
Part of: Answering Google autocomplete questions (2010)
About: Google, Google Autocomplete, Microsoft Bing
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-31 | asked | Hank asks viewers to Google 'is Hank Green awesome' so that it might autocomplete. (playful) | Is Lady Gaga a Man? 00:02:13 |
| 2011-01-05 | result reported | Hank checks whether the strategy of getting 'is hank green' to autocomplete worked: Google no, Bing yes ('hank green is cute'). (playful) | Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job 00:02:39 |
| 2011-01-28 | result reported | Hank reports that typing 'is h' into Google now suggests he is awesome. (playful) | Is Hank Green Batman? 00:00:36 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-01-05 · Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job — Hank: Checking whether 'our strategy' worked, Hank finds Google does not autocomplete 'is hank green' but Bing does (and suggests 'hank green is cute'), so for this purpose Bing beats Google. (playful) — 00:02:35
- 2011-01-28 · Is Hank Green Batman? — Hank: Typing 'is h' into Google now suggests Hank is awesome, and 'is Hank Green' brings up what people wonder about him, including whether he is gay and whether he is Batman. (playful) — 00:00:36