--- title: Google Feud: Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of Family Feud description: Google Feud is both surprisingly fun and surprisingly difficult canonical: https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T12:00:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:31.258Z og:title: You Can Now Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of 'Family Feud' og:description: Google Feud is both surprisingly fun and surprisingly difficult og:url: https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Now Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of 'Family Feud' twitter:description: Google Feud is both surprisingly fun and surprisingly difficult twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Can Now Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of _Family Feud_ > Sponsored content. 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Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 16, 2015 12:00 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 16, 2015 12:00 PM UTC [Google Feud](http://www.googlefeud.com/) is the online game we didn’t know we were waiting for. Knowing the people of the Internet’s collective love of [bizarre Google Autocomplete search suggestions](http://www.oddee.com/item%5F96932.aspx) and funny [_Family Feud_ clips](http://time.com/3510552/family-feud-funny-uncomfortable-moments-video/), some evil genius who aims to suck up the next hour of your life created a game that fuses the two. Here’s how it works: Google Feud asks you to select one of four categories including culture, people, names and questions.  Then you have to complete the Google search. Like, “Can you smoke…”  Spoiler alert: the second most searched for option is “catnip.” Created by writer and Internet enthusiast [Justin Hook](https://twitter.com/justinhook), the game uses Google API and pulls real questions and results directly from Google’s autocomplete. The answers are illuminating and sometimes depressing. For example, here’s what comes up for: “Obama is from…”  Obama is, of course, form the United States. “Beware,” the game [warns](http://www.googlefeud.com/), “certain results may be offensive and/or incomprehensible.” _Read next:_ [_The 13 Most Uncomfortable_ ](http://time.com/3510552/family-feud-funny-uncomfortable-moments-video/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[Family Feud _Moments Ever_](http://time.com/3510552/family-feud-funny-uncomfortable-moments-video/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/"},"headline":"You Can Now Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of Family Feud","datePublished":"2015-03-16T12:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:31.258Z","description":"Google Feud is both surprisingly fun and surprisingly difficult","url":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Internet","Games","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/","name":"You Can Now Play Google Autocomplete Like a Game of Family Feud"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3745641/google-family-feud/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```