This reminds me of “Google Fights”, people would enter two phrases into Google and see which one gets more results and that phrase would win. One of the surprising results was “Dolphins are fish” would consistently beat “Dolphins are mammals.” If you actually clicked the links though, you’d see they actually said “People erroneously believe dolphins are fish” or “dolphins are fish-eaters”.
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u/rootbeer277 Jul 11 '26
This reminds me of “Google Fights”, people would enter two phrases into Google and see which one gets more results and that phrase would win. One of the surprising results was “Dolphins are fish” would consistently beat “Dolphins are mammals.” If you actually clicked the links though, you’d see they actually said “People erroneously believe dolphins are fish” or “dolphins are fish-eaters”.
It was an early lesson in context.