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Office Space Moment

Posted by massnerder on June 26, 2006

I had today, what I’m calling an “Office Space” moment.  For the second time in the last two months, someone got to my blog by typing “easiest cars to steal” into a search engine.  The reason my blog comes up when these words are entered into a search engine is because of a post I made in the first half of May.  In this post, I comment on a C|Net story about how the RFID remote starters from expensive cars make them easier to steal.

The first time I saw this, I thought it rather odd.  It could be a budding criminal.  It could also have been someone doing some harmless research for a paper, news story, or figuring out what cars not to buy.  When I saw this today, I flashed to a scene in “Office Space.”  The scene I thought of is where they’re trying to look up money laundering in the dictionary.  The guys are so straight laced that they don’t have the first clue as to what it means to launder money.  The point:  you’re not going to learn how to successfully boost cars by Googling the topic.  You might as well just turn yourself in to the nearest police station on the charge of stupidity.

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  1. Brendan said

    Apparently, this sort of thing happens all the time. I’ve seen a number of news shows that cover murder trials and such in which the prosecution used search results against the defendent. Things like murderers searching ‘how to commit murder and get away with it.’ Goes to show how pervasive information gathering via the internet has become.

    Brendan

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