'Dying Grandparent’ Google Search Gives You Pictures of Christina Aguilera: Weirdest Search Engine Quirk Yet?

An odd story is circulating this week tying singer Christina Aguilera to the Google search term “dying grandparent.” (Yeah, you read that right.)

Apparently in June 2011, Radar Online published an article reporting that Christina’s longstanding feud with her father had extended to his parents as well. An uncle came forward and said X-tina’s grandparents were gravely ill and he hoped she could put aside her differences with her family and visit them before they passed. The story, of course, went viral on all the gossip columns and the popularity of the topic caused this peculiar search quirk.


Now, the terms Christina Aguilera and “dying grandparents” are forever linked in the Google image search engine. So when you Google the phrase, pictures of “The Voice” coach appear at the top of the list. The DailyDot explains that Aguilera’s image is cropping up with this search because other articles with the same terms typically don’t include images and they certainly rarely contain celebrity photos.

But X-tina has so much “Googlejuice” that she trumps all other illustrations of the grieving or elderly. So, what do you think? Is this the weirdest search engine quirk yet?