Weird Google searches (part 5)

In the past I've looked at amusingly weird Google searches such as 'Why is Santa fat?' and 'My PC is on fire'.

"I'm not an alco... *hic* alco... *hic*
alcoholic songbird! I'm an alcoholic owl!"

This week's blog post features a slight variation on the theme. Instead of looking at intentionally weird Google searches, this week I take a look at a selection of perfectly normal search terms which some internet users didn't quite type correctly.

1) To Kill A Mockingbird

There's nothing weird about searching for To Kill A Mockingbird, and in fact it's a very popular search term with an average of 450,000 searches per month.

Not quite as popular, but still clocking in with a rather impressive 12,100 searches per month, is the search term 'Tequila Mockingbird', presumably from readers who obviously think the book is about an alcoholic songbird! Apparently, a significant number of readers also seem to think the book is an instruction manual, judging by the 27,100 searches each month for 'How To Kill A Mockingbird'.

2) Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin was an American singer songwriter who gets tens of thousands of Google searches each month from fans of her music.

A similar search term that gets 1,300 searches per month is the search term 'Urethra Franklin'. Presumably those searches are made by either fans of the tube that connects the urinary bladder to the urinary meatus, or by poor spellers.

Be happy and keep on smiling.
Two tips for how to be less miserable.

3) Les Miserables

Every month an average of 450,000 searches are made for the popular novel, musical and movie known as Les Miserables.

The alternative search term 'Less Miserables', gets considerably less, clocking in at 880 searches per month, presumably made by either poor spellers or by grumpy people who are looking for ways to be happier.

4) Repercussions

A reaper cushion.

If you make a mistake and get things wrong there can be serious repercussions, so it's important to always try to do things correctly and accurately.

However, making a mistake doesn't always lead to serious repercussions. Sometimes it leads to amusingly silly repercussions, as demonstrated by the 40 people each month who search for 'reaper cushions'!

Thankfully, in their case, their poor spelling didn't lead to serious repercussions. It instead led to 'reaper cushions', as pictured.

5) Don Quixote

The name's Donkey.
Donkey Hotey.

Don Quixote was the main character in and also the title of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel was published in the 17th century, but it's still quite popular today if the 135,000 searches it gets every month are anything to go by.

Not quite as popular is the non-existent character Donkey Hotey, who gets only 170 Google searches per month. That's still more than the even less popular Donkey Oatie, however, who gets a mere 40 searches per month.

I have to admit, when I was younger I thought it was pronounced 'Don Quicks Oat', but apparently no-one is as foolish as young me, because 'Don Quicks Oat' gets no searches per month.

6) Lactose intolerant

There are apparently a large number of people in the world who are lactose intolerant, judging by the average of 201,000 searches made every month for 'lactose intolerant'.

The similar search term 'lack toast and tolerant' isn't quite as popular, but still gets a reasonable 1,900 searches every month, presumably from people who never criticise anything and are without grilled bread.

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Footnote: Google Keyword Planner, which I used when compiling this blog post, no longer gives such precise data, and instead groups results into larger bands, e.g. 100 to 1K, 1K to 10K, etc. The results in this week's blog post were researched before Google switched to a less precise reporting system. I would guess nobody probably cares about this, but just in case any weird person was interested in this obscure fact, I thought it would mention it anyway.

You can find more weird Google searches in my previous blog posts:
Weird Google searches (part 4)
Funny Google predictions quiz