Type the name Sanaa Chappelle into a search bar and you’ll see the familiar pattern that follows the children of famous people: a spike…
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Type “william gregory buckingham” into a search bar and you may get what looks like a familiar modern problem: fragments. A name on a…
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Type “sam handel” into a search engine and you may be surprised by how quickly a simple name turns complicated. A first name as…
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The phrase “theodore barrett press secretary” has a peculiar afterlife on the internet. People run into it in comment threads, in screenshot-style quote graphics,…
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Stan Cadwallader is not a household name, and he has never seemed to want to be one. Yet his life intersects with one of…
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Type “marion walmsley” into a search bar and you may expect a neat biography: a single page that explains who she is, what she…
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Type “Jessica Blyth Barrymore” into a search bar and you quickly run into a peculiar modern problem: a name that feels plausible, looks like…
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A surprising number of internet searches are not really about a person’s achievements, but about proximity: to power, to celebrity, to an administration, to…
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Public curiosity has a funny way of latching onto certain names. Sometimes it’s because someone built a company, ran for office, or made headlines…
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Type “chewy thompson” into Google and you’ll quickly notice something interesting: it sounds like it should point to one obvious thing—a well-known person, a character, a brand, a…
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