[imanintj]

Like, they want to find out how where they can buy a vaccum cleaner (random example) so they type "where can I find a vacuum cleaner in [insert city name here]?"

My family always does this and I keep telling them to only look for keywords. Also, if they look something up and it returns no results, they just add keywords to the list and search again!

Do people you know do this sort of thing? If so, does it annoy you? How else do they screw up their searches?

[Miryr]

Yes, and it annoys me greatly.

[AnotherA]

It drives me so nuts that I have to remove myself from the situation. The worst: a friend of mine who doesn't know how to use the URL bar. She'll type
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into the google search bar and then from there get to the site. My one attempt at teaching her resulted in, "But why can't I just do it like this?"
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[Elena]

Wow, I thought I was the only one who got annoyed at this.
I just have to go away. I tried, but failed to show my mother how to.

[Anumidium]

People who forget that you can use quoted phrases. It is seriously one of the most powerful features of Google, but nobody seems to use it. Then they act all surprised and say "How did you find that?!" if they ask for help.

[The Drifter]

The only thing that annoys me even more is my parents refusal to use wikipedia.org. Information is out there for those that want it.

[Fox]

Originally Posted by AnotherA To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

It drives me so nuts that I have to remove myself from the situation. The worst: a friend of mine who doesn't know how to use the URL bar. She'll type To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. into the google search bar and then from there get to the site. My one attempt at teaching her resulted in, "But why can't I just do it like this?" To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I do that most of the time. I prefer to type a URL really fast and quickly hit enter. One typo and it is the type of Porn that you really don't want to see. If I use the search bar the results show up and I can select the right one.

[Pachystima]

I don't find it the least bit annoying.

[LordCorbin]

At least they use it. Even more annoying is when you get asked a question that could be answered in 15 seconds by google.

[sandman]

	Originally Posted by Fox To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I do that most of the time. I prefer to type a URL really fast and quickly hit enter. One typo and it is the type of Porn that you really don't want to see. If I use the search bar the results show up and I can select the right one.

So... you would rather the machine forgives your mistakes, and keep on doing mistakes than suffer the consequences and improve yourself thereafter?
Seems wierd to me.


AnotherA:
Atleast you can chose not to bother with the person, like i do most of the time with people who clearly display an unwillingness to learn and improve themselves.
Try working in tech support and you'll encounter this very often, and you'll have to suffer it.
Really, all i want to tell these people is "Look. I was once an idiot like you too. But I've improved myself. If you do not want to expend the energy to learn how to use a computer, then it is simply not for you."


I am flawed, but I strive to be the best that I possibly can be.
I will not suffer people who are content to be useless.

[Necrosis]

I get annoyed. But I get more annoyed when they ask me something like, where is the nearest Walmart? Can you find it for me? No idiot...go google it and find it for yourself.

[Warrior]

I know how to google stuff, but it is usually after I've asked people for their input. I'd much rather hear some experienes from others first before I start looking on the internet, especially if I'm looking to purchase something.

[paulm]

Originally Posted by AnotherA To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

It drives me so nuts that I have to remove myself from the situation. The worst: a friend of mine who doesn't know how to use the URL bar. She'll type To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. into the google search bar and then from there get to the site. My one attempt at teaching her resulted in, "But why can't I just do it like this?" To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Related stupidity:
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This is why people fall for phishing scams, despite the fact they're often really obvious.

Then again, there's loads of people who don't even know what a browser is, they just start up "The Internet".

I remember a friend who had a dad living abroad: "I'll ask my dad to google it, the Internet is better there and he'll get more results"

[Mullanaphy]

It is annoying when hanging out with someone and they're trying to find something to show me. Worse when they only have a vague idea or barely remember what it was ("I think his name was 'Bob', or maybe it was a female named 'Cecilia', oh wait, my bad, it was a velociraptor" which in the velociraptor case is pretty cool I suppose...).

Anyways, just want to tell them to get up and let me do the searching\navigating. Vacuum cleaners in XXX, XX? Fine, search: vacuums loc:xxx, xx

P.S. Another thing I hate is poor Youtube\Hulu\Whatever navigation... One friend is so bad at it to a point that every single video he clicks on is way worse than the previous one...

[LaoTzu]

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caters to those people.

They're part of the problem.

[LionsPride]

	Originally Posted by LordCorbin To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	At least they use it. Even more annoying is when you get asked a question that could be answered in 15 seconds by google.

People that forward emails that could be found to be spoofs in 15 seconds drive me nuts. You mean you sent this to everyone in your address book and you didn't think to check if the virus/missing child/petition was even real?

[tooboku]

Is google a verb now?

[TheLastMohican]

	Originally Posted by tooboku To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Is google a verb now?

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[Stratego]

	Originally Posted by Miryr To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Yes, and it annoys me greatly.

	Originally Posted by AnotherA To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	It drives me so nuts that I have to remove myself from the situation.

	Originally Posted by Anumidium To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	People who...act all surprised and say "How did you find that?!" if they ask for help.

Ditto, ditto ditto.

As a Librairan, Google is my bread and butter, folks, for nearly every question flung my way that isn't of the "do you have this book by so-and-so" variety. About half of the queries I receive daily require nothing more than a simple keyword or phrase search or zip code search in Goolge for an answer, and when I produce said answer, I am often declared "a life saver," or a "magician." What they don't know...

While I'm aware that not everyone has the same, or aspires to the same level of competence when it comes to searching for information on the Big Glowing Box, it routinely annoys me when perfectly capable adults approach me with a helpless, dumbfounded mein, stressed out because they couldn't find so-and-so when it really isn't hard at all, if they just took the time to learn how to use the tools they have...

But there's the opposite problem, too. People that come up to my desk with banked tears in their eyes, waxing nostalgic about long-lost friends and relatives, absolutely convinced that all I have to do to track them down after 40 years' absence is simply to type their name in the little box and voila! Instant Contact Information. Did you know Vern got married and had three kids? Yeah, one's a Doctor. Internal Medicine, you know. Lucrative practice in Philly. Vern had gallbladder surgery in '03 but suffered from a sepsis infection shortly thereafter. Damn Medicare. Oh yeah, he got a coupla speeding tickets last May,...anything else you wanna know?

Really. There's lots of information about people online if you know where to look and know what you're doing, there's no such thing as true privacy anymore, but some people expect nothing short of full disclosure of every conceivable minutiae at the tap of the keys...

Sigh.

[sandman]

Originally Posted by Stratego To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

But there's the opposite problem, too. People that come up to my desk with banked tears in their eyes, waxing nostalgic about long-lost friends and relatives, absolutely convinced that all I have to do to track them down after 40 years' absence is simply to type their name in the little box and voila! Instant Contact Information. Did you know Vern got married and had three kids? Yeah, one's a Doctor. Internal Medicine, you know. Lucrative practice in Philly. Vern had gallbladder surgery in '03 but suffered from a sepsis infection shortly thereafter. Damn Medicare. Oh yeah, he got a coupla speeding tickets last May,...anything else you wanna know? Really. There's lots of information about people online if you know where to look and know what you're doing, there's no such thing as true privacy anymore, but some people expect nothing short of full disclosure of every conceivable minutiae at the tap of the keys... Sigh.

Just tell them a colleague googled "google" this morning and the intartubes are still clogged.

[Warrior]

	Originally Posted by tooboku To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Is google a verb now?

Yeah, even when I use it as a verb it gives me pause.

[emmanuel]

if google had feelings, it would be more than annoyed
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I want to be like google when I grow up :P

[Takeru]

	Originally Posted by The Drifter To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	The only thing that annoys me even more is my parents refusal to use wikipedia.org. Information is out there for those that want it.

Because wikipedia can be screwed up by people. This means that there is a chance the information that is put on there could potentially be false. Though really, I don't have too much of a problem with it, but I can understand why. Which is another reason why I avoid using wikipedia as my source in all my essays (but I do use the links below to see if the links themselves have any good information.)

As for getting annoyed by people who can't use google, it depends. At times, the person stating a claim should be posting a link with the sources. At times I am just too lazy to dig up the information for others (thereby putting it in the hands of the person who want the information.) Sometimes I may have missed a certain keyword to get me exactly what I wanted through google.

[Miryr]

Originally Posted by AnotherA To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

It drives me so nuts that I have to remove myself from the situation. The worst: a friend of mine who doesn't know how to use the URL bar. She'll type To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. into the google search bar and then from there get to the site. My one attempt at teaching her resulted in, "But why can't I just do it like this?" To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Oh, did you hear about the fiasco where people who did that got in another page and didn't notice it?
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It really does amuse me that in this day and age young people don't know how to use a computer.

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Originally Posted by paulm To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Related stupidity: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. This is why people fall for phishing scams, despite the fact they're often really obvious. Then again, there's loads of people who don't even know what a browser is, they just start up "The Internet". I remember a friend who had a dad living abroad: "I'll ask my dad to google it, the Internet is better there and he'll get more results"

Ooops, hadn't noticed you had posted something related to this already sorry.

[Zombicide]

	Originally Posted by LordCorbin To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	At least they use it. Even more annoying is when you get asked a question that could be answered in 15 seconds by google.

This is especially annoying to me when arguing with people online, you can of course tell that they didn't bother to easily take advantage of the very machine they're using to argue with you through when they make an unsubstantiated accusation that you made something up that in actuality can be immediately verified with the use of simple keywords in Google, as if it's not already annoying enough that it'll often be something they're pretending to be an expert in over oneself or to which the fact is something well known, they can't even bother to find out what it is they're arguing against.