'Google Poems' Are Hauntingly Beautiful 

 

 

It has been said that computers can do everything that humans can do, except write poetry. But the users of the Reddit page "googlepoems" are out to chip away at that theory. When you type a word or two into Google search, a handful of autocomplete suggestions pop up automatically. And sometimes, but just sometimes, those autocomplete suggestions are quite poetic.


We tried my hand at some Google poetry and it's really not as easy as it looks. More often than not, the autocompletes are uninteresting. It takes a few tries to get the hang of it, but some of the results are really magical. Google poetry gives you a glimpse into human nature. Playing with Google autocomplete gives you a sense of what's important to people, since autocomplete is based on a compilation of users' previous searches.