Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Iwind in Humor

It can be interesting seeing what suggestions Google Suggest turns up with when you start typing in a search phrase into google. One of the funny ones that several blogs have mentioned is the “Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?” phrase which googles suggest even if you only type in the two words “why is”. “Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?” is actually a quote from Lost, and I have embedded a video clip with this quote below.

The reason google suggest this phrase as soon as you type in “why is” would probably be cause of many people searching for this phrase after ths episode aired. So this phrase actually does have an explanation, and I’m sure there are similar explanation for most of the other weird suggestion Google throws up in your search box every now and then.

When you type your search Google Suggest communicates with Google and comes back with these phrases. If you’re signed in to your google account with web history enabled the suggestions with be drawn from searches you have done before as well as searches from people all over the world. Suggestions are also drawn from sites in their index and ads in their advertising network.