Google - The Solution to Everything
Google is such a powerful tool to have access to. It literally holds information on anything you can think of, and can help you out no matter what the problem is. I just sat here trying to get my head around making a Wireless card work with Linux. A couple of Google searches later and the answer was sitting there on the screen, right in front of my face. If I was doing this without the help of Google, I'd still be racking my brains trying to get the damn thing to work, and I wouldn't be typing this thread right now. It's ability to teach you things is incredible.
What really bugs me though, is how people have so many dumb questions up their sleeves when they have the power of the Google search engine to answer them all. For example, I went to see a friend the other day who asked me a question about computers, and why his wasn't working properly. I didn't know the answer, as it was such a strange question. I asked if he'd Googled it, and he just stared blankly at me as though I'd said something wrong.
You have the tools, why not use them.
Interestingly, I don't even use Google directly - I use Scroogle to do all my searching. It scrapes Google for the answers to my search requests, without handing IP addresses over. Pretty useful stuff.
What really bugs me though, is how people have so many dumb questions up their sleeves when they have the power of the Google search engine to answer them all. For example, I went to see a friend the other day who asked me a question about computers, and why his wasn't working properly. I didn't know the answer, as it was such a strange question. I asked if he'd Googled it, and he just stared blankly at me as though I'd said something wrong.
You have the tools, why not use them.
Interestingly, I don't even use Google directly - I use Scroogle to do all my searching. It scrapes Google for the answers to my search requests, without handing IP addresses over. Pretty useful stuff.
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I don't mind that, though. The thing that really gets to me is when my coworkers in tech support ask questions that they should have known or that can be Googled. If I can Google the question exactly as they asked it and return the answer in seconds, they should never have asked it. :facepalm:
I was once part of a website called Answerbag, and many questions asked on their were stupid as they could have easily found found them via Google!
Without Google most techs would be fucked.
That is precisely what I did!! Spent years at it getting higher and higher, then they revamped the UI and I promptly left. Looks like a Facebook wannabee, and its horrible! Such a shame as the previous one looked so nice
It gets to be a pain, though, when someone thinks that we *do* know everything already. "What you don't know what error code 0xF0ADA555 means? Do you know what you're doing, I want to talk to someone else etc."
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