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"If I use a tampon, am I still a virgin?"
"How drunk am I?"
"Can I catch herpes from my cat?"
"Is it bad to make yourself throw up?"

There's strange and then there's Google strange. People turn to Google to ask the questions they don't dare ask anyone else. This collection of unbelievable Google searches reveals the bizarre, ill-informed, and sometimes sick nature of everyday people. Whether it's researching how to manually force poop out of their body or wondering if jail is really that bad, this book proves that the truth really is stranger than fiction.

Customer Reviews & Comments
"Whoogles: Can a Dog Make a Woman Pregnant...And Hundreds of Other Searches That Make You Ask 'Who Would Google That?'" is a collection of utterly bizarre searches that unknown people have explored on Google along with snarky commentary from Kendall Almerico, an attorney and sports agent, and Tess Hottenroth, a self-described "waif and writer." The book has good and bad points and I wavered between three and four star ratings, eventually settling on four stars for the generally hilarious searches themselves; the commentary is much more inconsistent. Some of the comments are very clever and genuinely amusing, but too many are more suitable for middle schoolers and don't improve on the obvious humor intrinsic in the searches themselves. Despite the drawbacks, I still enjoyed the book for the often otherworldly searches that people use Google for. Opening the book at random, I offer these representative examples (all errors in originals): "is it gas or am i pregnant;" "ever wonder why ice cubes are so boring;" "when I grow up i want to be a principal or a caterpillar;" "would you say i have a plethora of pinatas;" "i didnt know she had the gi joe kung fu grip;" "france is set to concede that is aware of an alien presence on earth by no later than friday" (which inspired an obvious but funny comment involving Germany); "i noticed i was on fire" (Really? Someone just noticed that?); "i like to eat ice cream and i really enjoy a nice pair of slacks" (I cannot imagine why anyone would Google this one); "i like to eat cake while excruciating" (I loved the misuse of this painful adjective and so did the authors); "barfing game" (I don't even want to know); "why are the kardashians famous" (this is by far the most sensible query in the book); "what is it called when a giraffe swallowed a toy jet" (I am genuinely curious about this one, and I'm betting it involved a first-person experience); "cats and their personal stereos;" "i am disappointment in you're grammar" (my penultimate favorite of the bunch); and, finally, "oprah underwear," which is a search that would have never occurred to me, but there's all kinds of people in the world (and most of them, apparently, know how to use Google.) This book can be read cover to cover in less than an hour, but it does have some genuinely amusing moments. It would make a good gift or Christmas stocking stuffer for those with surreal senses of humor or people fascinated with the mental sensibilities (or lack thereof) of their fellow human beings.

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