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Please, Allow Yahoo! Autocomplete to Insult Your City

This wonderfully poisonous map shows what Yahoo!'s search engine thinks of places, such as "Chicago is so two years ago" and "Philadelphia is ugly."

Who knew Yahoo! had such an attitude? Type the name of a city into the search bar, and the autocomplete function will invariably spit out an insult: "Philadelphia is ugly," "Detroit is crap," "Memphis is a hellhole," "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people."

These crabby opinions are supposedly coming from popular searches that people make on Yahoo!, no doubt supplemented with predictions made by the engine's own algorithms. Some are dumb, like "Columbia is here" and "Boise is not a state." Others might leave you scratching your head over whether "Pittsburgh is the new Portland," say, or Minneapolis is the "new gay." But the vast majority are petty, poisonous little barbs, like "Seattle is depressing," "New York is killing me," and "Chicago is so two years ago" (it's not true, people!).