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don't you hate it when you're sitting somewhere with nothing to do but look at your phone, and there's nothing to see, and you can't for the life of you think what that last thing was that you just had to look up on a search engine and somehow annoyingly forgot to search for or even write down?
Well,
how about a hardcopy Rainy Day Curiosity Seeker?
It would have a couple of search suggestions at the top and bottom of each page, with a blank space in between for noting down potential searches of your own, and also the results of the ones you'd searched that you might want to look back at later without needing to go online again.
Also, you could tick a box next to all the pre-provided suggestions that you'd already thought of and searched yourself, just for the record.
The suggested searches provided on the page tops and bottoms could be hand-picked from server records, and divided into categories, like recent; useful, obscure; morbid; macabre; fanciful; conspiracy; fun; etc....(my category suggestions are definitely still only half-baked, but there you have it).
And, once you'd filled in the whole thing, as well as made use of any of the search suggestions that spiked your curiosity, you could give it away to a friend so they could search through the searches for a search they deemed worth searching.
Perhaps even better still : a new set of updated encyclopaedias should be printed (if there are enough trees left in the Amazon to cover it), with all the information on the internet in them, so that you can own a hardcopy of a whole chunk of the internet, for days when the WiFi is down?
I pity the door to door salesperson who has to carry those around....but still, it might be nice, as long as the set comes with a free aeroplane hangar to store them in... at least the first set, anyway.
Maybe the notebook would be a more sustainable idea.
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I can imagine using this. But the really clever thing would be if you could access a sort of flipped suggestions algorithm. |
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The trouble with suggestions algorithms, whether it's in Google search, or YouTube, or Netflix, or wherever, is that they tend to suggest things similar to what you've seen before. Whereas, if you're curious, those are the last things you want to find. |
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It's really just a paperbound diary dedicated to online searches and their results. Basically a personal document of one's own search history, mostly self-written.
The published text parts of it (ie, the search suggestions) would have to be selected from submissions of search lists gathered from the general public by way of a competition of sorts, where the most interesting and satisfying searchlist wins a hardcover copy of The Rainy Day Curiosity Seeker with at least five of their own suggestions in it. 5 would be the target number of novel/inspiring/unusual suggestions to gain a win, and ubmissions could be limited to 10 suggestions each. |
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Search engines should let you save (mediocre) search results and remind you when better results pop up. Maybe they do this already, but I'm not about to stay logged into most search engines. |
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I have dozens and dozens of notebooks with questions to look up one day, which I somehow never do. If there were a way to batch all the questions at once and get one answer, so just reading the answers didn't seem so exhausting... |
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To add.....
The competition would have a substantial number of categories (including 'other') to label your top ten choices with. |
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For example, here's my rather rushed, potential submission: |
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1) The Nutty Putty Cave Incident (macabre)
2) Which day of the week is called 'Tsiknopemptis' in Greek?(linguistic)
3) Who shot the man who shot the man who shot Kennedy?(historical)
4) Halfbakery (fun)
5)What is a bandicoot?(Zoological)
6)What happened at Hanging Rock in Australia circa 1973? (paranormal)
7) Which Neil Diamond song was inspired by ET extra terrestrial? (musical)
8) What is a 'Helter Skelter' at a fairground?(Obscure history)
9) Is 'Elon' a biblical name? (religious)
10) Bones's Pizza (video entertainment) |
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There. Reads a bit like a pub quiz. Could be a fad thing. Or it could become quite 'sought after' .haha... |
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True, 4and20...too true. After one or two searches and answers my enthusiasm for satisfying curiosity tends to flag, no matter how tempting the questions that remain. Ah, to be able to tap in to The Source of all knowledge and just be like the unknowing knower , how satisfying might that be... all itches scratched, born and hatched, world detached, meet your match......cool beans |
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// don't you hate it when you're sitting somewhere with nothing to do but look at your phone // |
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Sigh. Relatable. Years pass like this. Have a bun. |
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