14 DAY TRIAL // Considering that it's only a few days till Christmas, it's surprising that anyone is doing anything that is not holiday themed. It seems that Google, along with all of the usual stuff it's doing for this time of the year, has thought about something different and is holding a comic caption challenge.
The idea is decades old, you get cartoon with a blank caption and you have to come up with something funny to fill it with.
"The best cartoonists possess great insights, which they illustrate in a clever package that we can consume in seconds and yet remember for years," Udi Manber, VP of Engineering and Cartoons (more recently) at Google, wrote.
"With all of this in mind, today we’re connecting Google search and cartoons through a search caption challenge. Cartoon caption contests have a long history dating back at least to the 1930s," he announced.
Over at the Insight Search page, you'll a series of cartoons, each familiar looking, but with a common twist, they each involve Google Search somehow, on a laptop, on a phone and so on.
"In each cartoon, one of the characters is doing a Google search. We've left it to you to imagine what they'd be searching for at that moment, and left the caption blank for you to fill in with your answer," Mandber explained.
The most popular submission, as voted by visitors, is displayed right next to the cartoons, drawn by guest artists such as Matthew Diffee, Emily Flake, Christoph Niemann, Danny Shanahan and Jim Woodring.
But other popular suggestions are listed below and you can upvote your favorite one and downvote the ones you don't really like. Of course, if you think you can do better, you can submit your own caption, and if it's popular enough, it will get pushed up to the top.