Shaquille O’Neal has his own music career, but on Monday the Google search function somehow gave him a very impressive career credit he didn’t earn.
Searching for “NSYNC members” on Google would put Shaq in the early 2000s era boy band *NSYNC. It’s a hilarious mistake for the search giant, who somehow put the NBA Hall of Famer in a boy band with Justin Timberlake and three others. Shaq is listed as a baritone, which is probably accurate but still very funny.
There’s surely an explanation for this, but right now it’s unclear how this happened. Somehow the information for Shaq and Joey Fatone seems to have been transposed or perhaps merged together.
This is what you see when you search Shaq himself, which is probably an important crumb in the trail to fixing it for Google.
The Wikipedia, birth and height information are all from Fatone. But the Shoe size, marital status and Did You Know sections are all from Shaq’s Wikipedia. That’s just assuming Fatone doesn’t wear a size 22 shoe, which is perhaps a bit rude of me.
In any event, the Inside the NBA crew will definitely have a lot of fun with this little snafu. And maybe Google will get on a fix eventually.
