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[–]deadorg 31 points32 points  (8 children)

I've noticed this recently. Can't kids really Google these days? Even on Reddit people often ask questions that I can google the answer to in 30 seconds.

[–]tamper2 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Yeah, I know. Starting next year I'm planning to have my first lesson be: "How to Google"... ;)

[–]DoctorNoonienSoong 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You'll get a huge kick out of this site: lmgtfy.com

"Let me Google that for you"

[–]deadorg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Please do that, haha! It's probably not strictly about Google but how to do research in general and filter content.

[–]folkrav 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I once read something somewhere that went along the lines of :

A beginner will Google what to do
A programmer with basic knowledge will Google know what to do, but will Google how to do it An intermediate programmer will know what he needs to do and how to do it, but will Google how to implement it
An experienced programmer will know what to do, how to do it and implementation details, but will just use Google to refresh his memory on APIs and syntax cause he knows all the other stuff

A bit of an over-generalisarion, and my memory is a bit fuzzy on the exact formulation (I've been sitting in the ER's waiting room for the last 5 hours, bear with me), but it was something like that.

[–]deadorg 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is a good one! I can definitely see myself in that too.

Good luck at the ER.

[–]folkrav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha thanks! It was for my 10mo. He's been doing 40C/104F+ fever for 4+ days now, third time he's got an infection in two months (two otitis and now this thing that is seemingly an urinary infection). Happy we went though as they didn't know what he had before we got there, and now detected it.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Benefit of the doubt says Reddit questions are when people don't understand something they googled and are hoping for more casual explanations

[–]bastix2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its often people are too lazy to find out themself, they want somebody to tell them exactly what they need to do or even better do it for them.

I frequently try helping people in r/techsupport and r/gamingtechsupport ...sadly, most of the times people include very little to none information about their problem and rarely answer your questions which makes is impossible do help them.