Here’s what Emily said about her search:
Yesterday morning I was following up on a recommendation from my friend Ben — a woman he knows, an English major, taught herself calculus and wrote a book about it that I really want to read. Couldn’t remember her name, though. So I searched for “english major who taught herself calculus.”
And Google asked:
Did you mean “english major who taught HIMSELF calculus”?
It was just so weird, I took a screengrab, used a photo-editing tool to crop it to a wide horizontal shape and reduce the file size, and posted it with very short text. What was there to say besides: “No Google, no I didn’t.”
