It's all like... what?

Google phrase searches can produce results that seem like random answers to a Rorschach test -- only more amusing. Here are the top results (on a day last July) for "The Internet is like"...

• "a vast uncataloged library"
• "a vagina"
• "Joey Bishop"
• "a series of tubes"
• "Microsoft"
• "alcohol in some sense"
• "a newspaper"
• "Going down the Chinese road"

Closer to home, "Linux is like"...

• "switching from a car to a motorcycle"
• "a pizza"
• "ice cream -- too many flavors to choose"
• "a fixed wheel bicycle"
• "turrning on your first computer and figuring out what all those weird boxes did"
• "a common cold"
• "a whole new species"
• "Ubuntu, only different"

Our hat tip for this observation goes to reader Mike Warot. (See "What are they using?" for more about Mike.)

- Doc Searls