So, there I was, sitting at TCHQ, discussing the recent Vanity Fair article about Jack Dorsey — and the ridiculous bluebird-on-the-shoulder picture that accompanied it.
Keen to track down the image itself, I typed Dorsey’s name into Google’s predictive image search box.
Here’s what came up…
“Huh,” I thought. “‘Jack Dorsey girlfriend’ – that’s an odd thing to come up as the second suggested search term.”
Unless…
Google bases its prediction on what the majority of other users have previously searched for — and certainly there could be numerous reasons why large numbers of people are interested in the relationship status of paper-centimillionaire Dorsey.
Still, I tried some other famously wealthy and eligible names in tech…
Uh huh.
Right.
Yep.
Sure.
And, last but not least, let’s not forget Twitter’s resident superstar Biz Stone. After numerous high-profile appearances on Howard Stern, Conan and then vodka advertising campaign, surely his romantic currency is…
Awww.
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Image: Vanity Fair, April 2011