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The Internet’s Complaint Box

I have been doing God’s work.

I’ve have graciously spent one of my lunch breaks patrolling and helping peeps on the Google Web Search forums. In this short time, I now fully comprehend the staggeringly low technological competence of the average Internet user.

The Google Web Search forum is a catch-all. Clicking “Search Help” at the bottom of any Google results page will take you to its door, inviting any and all forms of complaint and suggestion.

Scanning its contents, you will quickly see that Google unfairly gets blamed not only for all common software and hardware problems, but it is considered to be the omnipotent Internet moderator, deleting and adding sites from the web at their own will.

To the not-so-well-versed Internet user, this forum is a last ditch effort for support. To put it simply, this is where your grandparents seek out computer help when you don’t answer your phone.

An overwhelming majority of forum topics can be categorized into two trends: “I am being scammed” and “How come my blog isn’t appearing on Google?” But in-between, there is a mind-numbing number of questions that must be seen to be believed.

The Logos

Every time Google creatively changes their logo for a holiday or date of special significance, the forum is flooded with confused and enraged users.

Last week, Google displayed a barcode to celebrate the anniversary of its first patent.

A similar outcry occurred on Google’s 11th birthday, in which they changed their logo to include two “11″s in place of their single “L”.

It Hurts When I Do This

Poor Google. They get blamed for the littlest things.

Good Samaritans

Some people just want to help.

Is This Thing On?

And the rest.

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