That's not what I'm looking for

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Do you ever try doing a Google search for something, and something really odd that you were not searching shows up? Happens to me quite frequently, because I tend to look for things that have other words. For example, as a music teacher, I have been looking for recorder music and apps that simulate the recorder. By recorder, you know I mean the instrument that kids play in elementary school. Unfortunately, "music recorder" gets me 90% machines to record music and 10% the instrument. I just did a search in Japanese for a geologic feature that I'm interested in researching, the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. It's a formation of seamounts that crosses the Philippines plate, and indicates the presence of an ancient ridge (a ridge being a place where tectonic plates are being pushed apart and where magma comes up). So, I found a couple of things in English, and decided to look in Japanese. it turns out that when you type in "Palau" in Japanese spelling it is the same as "pilaf", so I got an entire page of pictures of recipes made in Kyushu. Oh well! Do you have any amusing search stories?