Poor, poor Longford.
We’ve all spent enough time on Google to know that the search engine can come up with some bizarre and often hilarious search suggestions when you type in a certain word and that applies to the individual counties of Ireland as much as anything else.
Inspired by a Google Autocomplete map he had seen elsewhere, Omar Sarhan decided to make a map of Ireland with the each individual county followed by the first suggestion that came up when he typed the name of said county followed by the word ‘is’ into a search on Google Incognito.
We stumbled upon it thanks to Broadsheet.ie this morning and have barely been able to take our eyes off it since.
https://twitter.com/WheresOmarToday/status/649703204691804164
If that explanation sounds complicated, you’ll understand as soon as you see the map itself.
For example, a search for ‘Donegal is’ was followed by ‘happy’. The same applied for Fermanagh and Galway.
Westmeath, apparently, ‘is king,’ Leitrim ‘is a very funny place’ and the less said about poor Longford the better.
Down is definitely our favourite.
You can see a larger version of the individual map here; it certainly beats Google Maps any day of the week.
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