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How to do a giggle search
Have you ever noticed that when you start to enter something into the Google search bar, it produces a dropdown menu of "hints" based on the most common queries it has received? So, for example, if you type in "why," one of the hints is, "Why do cats purr?" If you type in "how many," you are...
 
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Get me rewrite (By Gene Weingarten, November 15, 2009)
 
Is death a laughing matter?: Of corpse it is (Post, November 8, 2009)
 
Below the Beltway: Unsound advice for speaking to the deaf (Post, November 1, 2009)
 
Are we having pundit yet? (By Gene Weingarten, October 25, 2009)
 
XOXOXO (By Gene Weingarten, October 18, 2009)
 
A Crush Course (By Gene Weingarten, October 11, 2009)
 
The Zodiac Killers (By Gene Weingarten, October 4, 2009)
 
You Say Tomato (By Gene Weingarten, September 27, 2009)
 
Her Archie-Enemy (By Gene Weingarten, September 20, 2009)
 
The Lyrical Miracle (By Gene Weingarten, September 13, 2009)
 
Unimpeachably Unfunny (By Gene Weingarten, September 6, 2009)
 
Boom, Boom . . . Pow! (By Gene Weingarten, August 30, 2009)
 
Weenies at the Ballgame (By Gene Weingarten, August 23, 2009)
 
Owe, That's a Riot! (By Gene Weingarten, August 16, 2009)
 
The Lord of the Ring (By Gene Weingarten, August 9, 2009)
 
Meat and Greet (By Gene Weingarten, August 2, 2009)
 
Blessed Events (By Gene Weingarten, July 26, 2009)
 
A Cheney Reaction (By Gene Weingarten, July 19, 2009)
 
The Tweet Smell of Success: Gene Weingarten on Making the Most of Twitter (By Gene Weingarten, July 12, 2009)
 
Down With tHE CAPS LOCK KEy (By Gene Weingarten, July 5, 2009)
 
Unadulterated Genius (By Gene Weingarten, June 28, 2009)
 
Shaking a Stick (By Gene Weingarten, June 21, 2009)
 
A Cry for Change (By Gene Weingarten, June 14, 2009)
 
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