You may remember the alarming photo of this Google tattoo. Turns out that yes, it's real, and (depending on your perspective), it's spectacular:

Well, there are many meanings behind it. One, I love google, and even wrote a CIS paper about the company. Two, a weird little connection with 'searching' for things I have. I've always been really into the company, and have watched the search engine for years. I have lyrics on my back from my fav band, I guess it's some weird statement of loyalty from me. I guess I'm just a crazy fangirl. It hasn't been easy having it, though. Some lady came up to me in a store, licked her finger, and tried rubbing the tattoo off... I was severely disturbed. If I had a nickel for every time someone said ''is it real?" I'd be rich.

Appears this is the only permanent version, though pretenders and newbies abound.

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