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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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[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stop using Google?

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

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] mcc@mastodon.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] gnomon@mastodon.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago