Momto6inIN Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Yikes! Thank goodness my kids weren't around. I think I need to go clear my search history now ... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Okay, I was homeschooled so I don't follow directions well so of course I googled dancing bears. I got a lot of pictures of multi-colored bears. What am I missing? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I got a links to a resort in the Adirondacks, a dancing group in Anchorage, a description of tame bears, and to an international animal rescue. I'm thinking maybe Google and Rorschach are related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Oh yes, I made that mistake once...I received quite an education! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Google remembers your search results to better serve you. That's why many of us are steered towards the hive when curriculum shopping. Me thinks some of us have a raunchier search history than others. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Google remembers your search results to better serve you. That's why many of us are steered towards the hive when curriculum shopping. Me thinks some of us have a raunchier search history than others. Yes, this is how some hive members have discovered household or office mates have made questionable searches on computers. Google is watching! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaraby Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Well....that was disappointing. All I got were multicolored bears, actual bears, and videos of real bears. *sigh* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My results are multicolored bears, but then again, when our 6 year old searched for 'sexy girls" because she thought it meant pretty girls, we learned to add in parental controls. You can put parental controls (if you desire) on Google, YouTube, many browsers, etc. to prevent such results. Just an FYI. Of course, dancing hairy gay guys isn't too traumatic for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I just get the Grateful Dead dancing bears. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My results are multicolored bears, but then again, when our 6 year old searched for 'sexy girls" because she thought it meant pretty girls, we learned to add in parental controls. You can put parental controls (if you desire) on Google, YouTube, many browsers, etc. to prevent such results. Just an FYI. Of course, dancing hairy gay guys isn't too traumatic for me. Do they have to be gay? An interesting coworker of my husband calls him a bear. I don't think my husband is gay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abba12 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Google remembers your search results to better serve you. That's why many of us are steered towards the hive when curriculum shopping. Me thinks some of us have a raunchier search history than others. If we're talking image search there is also the safesearch function which you may have turned on and the OP may have turned off As for text results, I got a bunch of 'free the indian dancing bears' websites. This amuses me, I know why I got those results, and you're right, it's totally tracking me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syllieann Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Well, I had to scroll way down to find it. I believe op is talking about a male stage performer in a huge bear head. And ftr, I'm appalled at the way dancing bears are treated...the real literal bears I mean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Do you have "safe search" on? It's in the Google settings. This is very funny, because the first thing that came to my mind was, of course, burly, hairy gay men. Dancing. And to the person who asked if a bear has to be gay, I'd say no, not necessarily, it's mostly a reference to body type. The subculture is about gay men who like men with that body type, instead of the waxed and lean stereotype of what gay men are "supposed" to look like. It would be just like saying a heterosexual woman was butch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'm disappointed in myself. It's all Grateful Dead and nature videos over here, too. I'm not into ultra hairy guys so it wasn't too upsetting when I didn't see any. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 We do have parental controls on this computer, but still the first sites that came up were all p*rn! And I'm primarily the one who uses this computer (hubby uses only his laptop at work and his phone, kids mostly use their laptop) and I promise I'm not the raunchy one! LOL Luckily I didn't have images on. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I just got tame stuff like the Dead bears. Nothing raunchy. That was via Chrome on my iPad, both while logged in to google and while going incognito. I do have the iPad set to some restrictions to keep anything questionable out. SafeSearch did not happen to be on though. We do have opendns on our wifi to block some stuff, but it'll tell you if it blocks anything. (So if I search for p*rn, I'll get a bunch of links, but if I click them, opendns will tell me it blocked them. I didn't get anything like that.) I'm curious as to whether I'll get different results if I use one of our desktops, and whether it matters if I log in as DH, myself, or nobody. We do run Qustodio on all desktop accounts, and they're all set to keep out p*rn, and Qustodio is also set to enforce SafeSearch. (It seems to work well, because I've seen drastically different results depending on whether Qustodio was active or not.). I'll have to try a few things and report back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingmama Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 All I got was inns/hotels/resorts (yes, more than one), a gift shop, the grateful dead, a non for profit, and a YouTube video of a bear playing the horn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I think we've all learned something about jlhonegger today. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Somehow it decided I needed to see Bindi Irwin doing the Dirty Dancing routine. ETA: It was pretty good. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 We do have parental controls on this computer, but still the first sites that came up were all p*rn! And I'm primarily the one who uses this computer (hubby uses only his laptop at work and his phone, kids mostly use their laptop) and I promise I'm not the raunchy one! LOL Luckily I didn't have images on. :) Was that Google? Could you have left your Google account open somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 All I got was the innocuous stuff described here. Guess incognito mode really works as advertised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 Was that Google? Could you have left your Google account open somewhere? It was google. We have parental controls from opendns and if I click on the links that pop up then it denies me entrance to the site, but the links still showed up on the search. I don't use any computers other than this one and my tablet. Well, I guess the library once or twice but the last time was ages ago. So I don't think so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hmmm....I DIDN'T google Dancing Bears because my children are around but... I remember last year googling "How to hobble a chick" and got all kinds of interesting results! And that's WITH Safesearch on. AND, I know for a fact that I'm the only one routinely using this laptop, as my husband is computer illiterate. And no, my search results did not reflect my search history, lol. It might have been related to the fact that I had recently done a cookies/cache dump. Maybe Google didn't have a search history because of that? I don't know. All I know is that I learned to be more careful how to phrase things with Google. ETA: Ok, I googled while they were distracted with something else and...all I got were a bunch of bears and Grateful Dead references. NO idea where the GD results are coming from....lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 The cache dump is a great point. Google always forgets where I am when I do that at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I'm not sure if it's that simple thoughTsuga. Doesn't Google have a "cloud search history" that is tied to your actual Google profile and not your computer? I know that I can search for something on Google using one of our Tablets and then if I search for that same thing on my laptop, it indicates that I've previously searched for it (you know how it turns the link purple if you've previously clicked?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I don't log in to Google at work though, for example. So if she is not logged in or turned off that feature (which you can do), then clearing the cache might work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I got some of the colorful ones as well...was going to say cute, but they weren't cute though. Just innocent, colorful dancing bears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 I had my husband poke around a little bit and see what he could figure out. Turns out the little search bar on the toolbar at the top right of the screen was set to yahoo search instead of google. I guess that must be the difference because when I went to the google search directly it came up with all the innocuous stuff the rest of you found. I didn't realize you'd get such drastically different results with a yahoo search vs a google search! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarabellesmom Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Ok, I tried the google search and got what everyone else did. Then I did the yahoo search.... Ewwww. Just ewwwww. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebcoola Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I tried both got all cute cartoon things on google and got real live tortured bears dancing on Yahoo. No gay men no parental controls on this computer and raunchy stuff has been searched for before so who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Spam reported. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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