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Your Darkest Desires Revealed
or, What do you type into Google?
 
 


Internet search engines have become mirrors of our collective weirdness. When we type our thoughts into Internet search engines, we leave trails of the bold, strange, sad, and lonely desires that we conceal from even our closest friends. Internet search engines are safe-seeming sounding boards: in them we can type our fleeting curiosities or deep perversions, hoping there are other people out there who harbor similar interests and have built Web sites about them—complete with photos.

  We are all creating shadowy half-selves on the Web, entire personalities and histories that reflect our thoughts.

The beauty, and terror, of search engines is that what we type into them is amazingly honest, and what is entered lasts. Type “kiddie porn” and there’s an archeological e-record of the quest, one that can be tracked back to us. Search for a controversial book, say, Mein Kampf, or query “bomb-building,” and we leave a trail, too. Even if we don’t want our thoughts recorded, even if Web hosts don’t care to preserve the late-night whims of their visitors, each of our searches pool and keep somewhere. We should all know by now, that, at some level, we are creating shadowy half-selves on the Web, entire personalities and histories that are reflect our behavior and thoughts.

Do you doubt it? Think no one’s watching as you search for porn or videos of beheadings in Iraq? Below is an list of phrases typed into search engines that led Web surfers to Inversion. Believe us, we don’t want to know all the odd needs and animal lusts that lead people to our site. But we do.


dr 90210 porn

premature boobs

penis inversion

dead cosmonauts

Vietnam deserter executed

how to slide into second base

horny librarian cleavage

mature twinkies

examples of cock teasing text messages

rush limbaugh dolphins

tom gilmore asshole

how to play the autoharp

george-w.-bush motherfucker

john kerry staring breasts

masturbating boxers

fat white movie actor

gay dolphin

michael jackson is fucked

big boobs book for kids

how far can a water balloon be tossed to another person

difficulties faced by sylvester stallone as a writer

unfun games

modern harpoon cannon

photos of deform babies

jumpers that loll their tongues

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