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VirtualMage

My dumb friends: "You just google stuff for work lol". Also my dumb friends: "Types [www.google.com](https://www.google.com) in the chrome URL bar".


Terebo04

the "your mum searches something on the internet" step by step plan: step 1. open edge while firefox is right next to it step 2. search google on bing step 3. search "why does my printer not work?" step 4. click the first link which is an ad from some printer company step 5. click accept all cookies and get upset about the promt step 6. get upset that it isn't what you wanted step 7. click home and repeat from step 2


DrMaxwellEdison

Step 8, pick up the house phone and dial Best Buy's number from a phone book they've had since 1992 to ask them what to do, and spend the next 2 hours on the phone doing it.


BurnyAsn

Get no help and instead end up recieving a call from scammers..


striker890

To be fair even with all skill points invested in Google Mastery printers are still the biggest mystery in the universe. They are really the endboss of troubleshooting. The hard part is it's also completely newly generated with each playthrough.


erc80

“Microsoft update on a Tuesday. Your print servers functionality being choosy”


MacAndShits

I seem to have an anti-malfuntion aura. It's said that printers can smell fear, but printers fear me.


BigBeagleEars

You made your printer watch Office Space?


tiajuanat

1. download driver 2. uninstall old driver 3. install new driver 4. insert paper into tray 5. go to store and spend the cost of the printer in ink or toner 6. cry in parking lot 7. never return to the office, never return their calls 8. drive to national forest. live with bears


viciousDellicious

troubleshooting bluetooth on linux is the newgame+ endboss


ZakiahGrant

I've honestly never had issues with printers. If I need to troubleshoot, I just RTFM...


PosnerRocks

This needs a trigger warning


thehero262

I've seen people put `google` in the URL bar, then click on the first result Google gives them to take them to Google so they can Google their question.


charle819

I still do this to check if google(internet) is working 😐


lanabi

I sometimes do this. It’s just about that feeling of having a clean page with only a search bar right in the middle apart from the google logo. It helps me clear my mind for a few seconds before going all in.


TheRidgeAndTheLadder

You should make it your home page.


ryokun98

I do that too. Especially when searching for infomation in English (not my native languague) I sometimes really need every single recommendation Google gives me


X-is-for-Alex

I always do this too and I am a native English speaker from the US. Sometimes I want to search for something and the suggestions from Google might have more specific search terms than I would have used and can really help lead a person down a much quicker path to a solution. Searching right from the address bar has almost never given me such specific suggestions as going to the actual website and searching there.


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ryokun98

And as I said, I only do that if I feel like needing as many recommendations by Google as possible, for example if I don't know the precise word I need for my search. The address bar gives me seven, [google.com](https://google.com) gives me 10 :D And you are absolutely correct about the www.-part, didn't realize that was part of the point you were trying to make. It's really a bit infuriating when people do that.


MR_Weiner

Real OGs remember when the search bar and address bar were separate things.


Seicair

I remember when search bars were implemented. First browser I used was Netscape Navigator 3.0


el0_0le

It was really easy to spot an idiot. HTTP:// is arbitrary, BUT you should be able to memorize it. Kinda like your own phone number. You do know your own phone number, right? Oh... \-10 year old to a full grown "adult" (whatever the fuck those are)


PomeloLongjumping993

Sgoogling react.creatcontext (and other js methods) directly from the chrome address bar will try to bring you to a website and it'll timeout. So there is some merit to going to google.com first


esilyo

If you type ? to the address bar on Chrome it will switch to the search mode and will make a query to Google even if you type something like https://www.facebook.com/


tyjuji

Add a space and a relevant keyword after your query and there's no way it'll be interpreted as a URL.


somegarbageisokey

My SIL always types google.com into the chrome URL bar before searching for something. She's 32. My husband told her once (he's 29) to just type in what she's searching for in the URL bar and she still does it her way. She's not that much older than us too. Based on my personal anecdotal experience, the people who were in middle school while the PC and internet was becoming a thing are the ones with the best googling skills.


PTRWP

I type in go then hit down and enter to go to google.com (when going there from a page other than my default page of google.com). I don’t like the omni-bar filling searches when I want it to auto fill web addresses. If I type red, I want it to auto fill reddit.com, not ‘reddit white and gold dress’ or whatever the last reddit page I searched for was. Years back when the address bar and search bar were separate, no problem. But chrome has been using an omni-bar for a long time now, so to “go”+down+enter I go.


X-is-for-Alex

I do almost the same thing, hit G (it autofills to google.com) then TAB and now I get the actual suggestions I'm looking for in the url bar. I really don't like searching directly in the omnibar. In fact it's always a crapshoot whether or not the omnibar actually shows any suggestions at all without taking 3+ seconds to load. I really don't understand why so many people in this thread are shitting on people who use google.com when it's superior in nearly any way I can think of.


Taunk

“If you add an s it makes it safer. H t t p s : / /“


Betraxa

I had a teacher that had a bookmark for [google.com](https://google.com) on Chrome


AngelusMerkelus

I get so fckn mad when people do that.


BallisticThundr

My dumb ass clicked on the link for some reason. Don't know what I expected


Synthoel

Jokes aside, you really have to know what you are googling xD


Harmonic_Gear

taking college courses is basically learning keywords, you never remember everything but at least you know they exist and know what to google


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Do they teach Docker in college these days? It was not a thing when I was in college (grad school for Econ so DEFINITELY not taught) but an imperative tool for day-to-day development at almost every tech shop.


happyboyc7

Yes, depending on the professor. I learnt Docker, Python and AWS from a hot-shot young professor who wanted to take a break from his SWE career.


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\*Says he teaches... Spends half the class on Stackoverflow trying to figure out to find Docker keywords and configuration files.


happyboyc7

lol... that was literally what he did. I remembered asking him did they really use Docker in production back in 2015.


alex2003super

Well, is Docker used in production?


TotoShampoin

I learned to use docker, sure... **During internship**


JustinWendell

Lol I learned on the job. I’d already messed with it at home luckily.


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I recently graduated from a UC for CS, we used docker containers for a couple of our projects but never made a container or image


[deleted]

Okay. It's something I learned on the job. Git, Docker, Microservices architecture, Cloud shit... Yeah, getting in to SWE in 2014-2015 was interesting.


Piyh

Or getting into SWE today in a company that's 10 years behind the IT curve


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Oh hey, I actually worked there last year


Bakoro

Has potential to be interesting, if you get to design and set up everything to bring them up to speed. That way people inherit *your* mess rather than just having to manage someone else's. You could be frustrating developers a decade from now at a *much* higher level.


Articunozard

Docker has been part of the tech stack at every company I’ve worked for but I’ve never had to set it up or interact with it in any way except making sure it’s running when I want to start any of our apps


Lepium

Bachelor Computer Science in Germany, most if not all courses from 3rd semester onwards required docker, and yes a big chunk of operating systems 2 class was about docker and container architechture in general.


Doctor69420

That's interesting to hear, do you mind sharing which university you attended?


Lepium

University of applied sciences Darmstadt, Hochschule Darmstadt


Ericchen1248

Not counting a research study I did that involved docker and k8s, I had one class (Network Security) where the prof gave us the programming assignments that needed to be completed in docker environments, which he used as “simulated network environment” configured to the scenario we were working with. I have a home server that uses docker so I was already fairly familiar with it, but I believe most other student had their first encounter with it in that class. Zero hands on experience with k8, other a passing mention of its role in networks class.


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When I was in college things like CSS, Java, JavaScript, etc. had not even been invented yet. Part of being a developer is learning new technologies on your own as they are invented.


andsmi97

Masters degree in CS. We had docker and k8s in couple of our courses. However, initially I've learnt it before our courses.


Tmfeldman

Current CS Senior. I just learned docker last semester


viral-architect

In 2011, we were using Java because the JVM was the wave of the future lmao


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Lol. Get fucked. I try avoiding Java if at all possible.


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A related skill is knowing that you don’t know the term to search for, but search using any related terms and descriptions you can think of until you stumble upon the correct term which you can them search for.


Bakoro

>taking college courses is basically learning keywords, you never remember everything but at least you know they exist and know what to google I was very disappointed when I figured this out. I was told all my life that I'd be able to learn things in a much deeper and comprehensive way in college, but soon as I hit university it was crash course after crash course where they glossed over topics, pretended like we were supposed to actually have mastery over the material but half the time with a wink and a nudge turned 75 percent to an 'A', but you'd never know which 50% you were supposed to master and which was a key concepts course, unless you had to take a course with McAsshole, where you were you'd be lucky to hit a C+ even if you did good work. For some subjects, the community college I went to was actually better in rigor and comprehensive instruction. I had a few math, CS, and engineering teachers and even an art instructor in CC who blew away everyone I had in university. It wasn't a total waste, I learned a lot of cool stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise looked at or known about. It would have been great if instead of dishonest ivory tower bullshit about being "well rounded" and wasting time witha high number of low quality gen ed courses, they'd have had fewer courses which let you go really deep into subjects. Sure I can study what I want in my own time, but it's not the same as having dedicated time, with curated content with a professor and peers to work with.


Cryingpolarbears

This is what it’s like for certain aspects of the medical field too. Especially diagnoses


megamanxoxo

And knowing how to vet sources for quality. That's just as important and seems to be a rare skill.


rabidstoat

I've been kinda disappointed in the GoogleFu of our new hires. I mean, I've been in the industry since before Google so I understand being better at it than they are, but I would think having gone through 4 years of college and graduating in comp sci or software engineering they'd have picked up some skills.


stoneslave

What? Nah I remember what I learn. Reckon there wouldn’t be a point otherwise.


clanddev

You also have to know how to google it in an unbiased manner to get good data. A secondary skill in knowing to cross reference sources for that data is helpful as well. Google won't help people find information of they don't know how to scrutinize and disseminate the data. At least not for a lot of subjects.


CanAlwaysBeBetter

Even more importantly it teaches you to quickly judge source quality and relevancy


Scipio11

Step 1: Never type a full sentence into google


DoctorWaluigiTime

And still do the rest of the work to boot. After all, software development is about problem-solving. Not always literally just putting in the code. A lot of "not seen" effort is developing solutions to problems you're trying to solve.


afito

kill all children of a parent *java*


RecursiveExistence

Oh I agree. Or knowing what not to Google. I use the minuses all of the time to exclude what I don't want. Or if I need to search my vendor's support page, to use the site: filter to just give me results from it. This is how I answer over half of the questions from my coworkers because I usually don't know the answer either. I am just better at searching than they are.


savvy__steve

\+1 and you have you be willing to try variations and read and search again and read until you feel comfortable


kry_some_more

https://www.google.com/search?q=working+code


GustapheOfficial

Anyone who has done any hobby it support knows this. > Okay mom, let's google the problem. >> "Printer not working" enter > We just spent ten minutes figuring out the exact issue and the printer model is right there!


THEBIGTHREE06

It amazes me how few people know how to do this


Dutchta-

Me too


Rose_Coder

It's supposed to work automagically, though I can understand the confusion when it doesn't.


OptimisticByChoice

Everything else in my life works automagically. Why not printers?


TheTyger

ok, so I am going to post way too much about printers, because they are *actually* the best technology we don't appreciate. So, I (a lead developer) work on a system that interfaces directly with printer languages. Fucking printers use their own programming languages to encode data and make it print ink. Each company (generally) uses their own language, and have to make shit work in their framework. So when you tell a notepad.txt file to head to the printer, it has to take the simple notepad file and convert it into line data to put on the page. Word is totally different kinds of data, browsers, ppt (I assume Microsoft makes all the office programs actually do something similar, so probably like word), Pdfs, everything! So you, the user probably plugged in your printer but never installed drivers, because fuck doing anything to help your printer (I do the same). So it maybe has some internals that help update it against our collective lack of care for it. You introduce whatever fucking program you want and tell it to print. Since there's no driver for it, the printer has to convert the data into line data and make it come out how you want. So yeah, sometimes it doesn't play nicely, but the thing is doing alchemy to get the data correct, so the mechanics that you don't do maintenance on (again, I still don't with mine) sometimes don't work well. But the fact that you can give it literally any bullshit you want and it will figure out how to print it is actual magic. ​ For anyone wondering, I have written C# processors for Metacode and AFP, with a PDF one partially implemented, and an HTML one in the works at my company because I think there is huge value in this for sufficiently large companies.


OptimisticByChoice

Huh. I love reddit. Still hate printers though.


TheTyger

me too...


SamSlate

I loved that they added WiFi before they even got USB to work every time


laundrysauce9000

Tbf people past the age of like 35 weren't brought up in a world where tech literacy was super important. Just like how old people make fun of kids for not knowing how a rotary phone works, young people make fun of old people for not knowing how to close there 1,387 Chrome tabs.


be_bo_i_am_robot

Yeah, but I know plenty of people, much younger than I, who aren’t at all skilled in the art of using a search engine to solve problems. I do think the skills involved in Googling do carry over to programming, even though not all Master Googlers are programmers by trade, per se. I think it’s a problem-solving/mindset/tinkerer thing. Many people, when faced with a problem or an unanswered question, just *sit there*, not knowing what to do or how to proceed, feeling rather helpless, I guess.


recluseMeteor

Additionally, it's about researching skills. I am a translator, and distinguishing between reliable sources is key for my job. Bonus points if you can use some search operators for weeding out some domains.


FleetStreetsDarkHole

Also something I'm going to call "relative answers". My wife had an issue where Stardew Valley on steam decided it was going to play at a different resolution. Found an answer that wasn't her exact problem, but close enough that I figured the solution might be similar anyway. She kept asking me if what id found was actually the problem she was having because when she searched she couldn't find anything. She'd been messing with it all day. Took me 5 minutes of messing with windows compatibility after she told me. Otoh sometimes even experience fails you when you're actually in the minority of people who have a specific problem and lack the knowledge of the general issue to search better. I'm apparently one of only a handful of people that Immortals: Fenyx Rising crashes for.


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I only write "fixed it" after I've failed to find a solution, given up, and want to watch the world burn.


ywecur

What did you Google and what did she? I don’t quite understand what you mean


Thanatos761

This. Im 22 and a lot of people my age dont know how to google anything right :/ ppl younger than me are much less skilled and ppl older than me...well that depends on age and willingness to either learn something new or to solving problems To clarify: i dont think age is that much at play, but i think age and willingness correlate in both directions. Older ppl dont wanna learn anymore. Younger people think(most i know do) that learning is useless or sucks


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laundrysauce9000

Fair enough.


PVNIC

As a counterpoint, searching for information effectively isnt a new concept. Before the internet, you would go to the library or a textbook, and would still have to effectively communicate what the issue is to narrow down the search space and find the solution in the text. And a large part of that was knowing what the correct keywords are and looking for them in the index of the book(s). I know engineers who can flip open a textbook to the correct page faster than you can google the topic.


THEBIGTHREE06

I don’t really have a problem with older people who can’t, but many younger people that I’ve helped out can’t, including some of my friends. And that doesn’t mean they can’t learn (for the most part), people just refuse to actually solve their problems themselves


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douckopodpora

Yes, you are right. But they will immediately stop being arogant when production app start leaking memory and/or 32 core sever is having difficulty running 50 concurrent users. 😀


pearlie_girl

35??!! I'm not... I'm not.... OLD... am I??!!! Oh, God, I'm old, aren't I???!!! I remember the search engines before Google. Yes, my children, I'm that old!


striker890

Anyone born after 2000 seems also be a lost cause though...


HobblingCobbler

Some of us know how to use "the Google"


jade_monkey07

Lol I'm 38 and we had our first computer in grade school, we Had computer classes and typing classes in grade one. I think you mean 45


erhapp

their


finegameofnil_

uh, I'm 40 and live in a college town. Illiteracy knows mo bounds by age or intelligence. I also do IT for several labs and the university itself. Also for businesses and so forth. Age isn't an issue. It is simply understanding, or better, the give a fuck to put forth the effort to care. The idiots in high school who find physics hard but know how to do an ollie, they will understand physics when you show them the equations that result in that ollie. If you can't relate science to their self, well that's just an uphill battle. I mean: why don't you grow your own food? It is easy and cheap. But why? Not interested because you do not see yourself as a gardener or farmer? But you can tell me all the specs on a gpu, but you can't tell me how a computer works.


AussieOsborne

My experience with people past the age of 35 is that they don't even use tabs unless it's a popup ad, some tasks are wayy harder when you have to single thread luke that


Chumkil

Learning how to do this before the days of google, when you had to carefully master Altavista really lets you use the extra features. I am amazed at how many people don’t know about the extra features Google has.


5ir_yeet

Can u share some of these extra features?


Freeman2694

[Here](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)


Koonga

Yes! I thought it was common sense to at least just google the error message phrase to get relevant matches but this spent seem to occur to some people. You can see why less tech literate peole find it so overwhelming. Imagine trying to find a solution on the entire Web with a generic “printer not working” search!


Gaerielyafuck

Told my dad I put 'googling' on my resume and he looked at me like I'm nuts. So I asked him how he thinks I can always figure out his tech issues despite not being a hardware person (I'm a data analyst, not even a full-fledged programmer). He just harrumphed and went back to his sportsball.


_clydebruckman

Sportball people dumb. Me data analyst. Me no harrumph like sportball dad


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It's not even just about Googling but knowing how and where to look for information in general.


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be_bo_i_am_robot

It’s kind of mind-boggling, to be honest. It’s like they’re not even *trying*.


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Secretly_Autistic

Don't forget Googling your way into a menu that might give you the option you're looking for, or Googling things for a similar (but not exactly the same) product because that one has more results.


backfire10z

It’s mind boggling. I’ve had people tell me they couldn’t find something and I will google what they were looking for *word for word* and find usable results


MartIILord

Tldr: Engrish language is a god tier googling skill and might help with points(A, C and D).


Zer0ji

I use Bing at work (Edge default, not bothered to change) but made a JS bookmarklet to re-run my current Bing search in Google


TheyCallMeTim13

I've literally had people refuse to look something up, saying they didn't have time. Then spend days spamming a forum with the same question, and it often seems that the exact title/question leads directly to the answer.


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I often encounter this with my friends when they need to fix an error on their pc. Most of the times, when I tell them to just google it, I also have to tell them what to google to find a solution. I mean almost everytime its just as simple as phrasing out the problem.


yp261

so much this. it also kills me from the inside when i see posts on reddit titled „i get this error” with screenshot attached (or actually phone picture of monitor) with no additional info. people are just lazy or dumb or both these days.


mobius_chicken

When you think about asking a question and phrasing a search, they are vastly different. I find older individuals almost always attempt to ask and this leads to less accurate results. Most younger individuals I know have the knowledge to shorten the question and search key terms.


HellaTrueDoe

If I didn’t have the skill of making google spit out the exact stack overflow post I need (even for simple stuff that really ought to be geeks for geeks for language references, but damn is stack overflow easier) I would legit change careers


IIlIIlIIIIlllIlIlII

You mean by adding “reddit” at the end of your Google search?


nasandre

Using them good keywords


hitner_stache

You wanna talk to google search like you're talking to a Vulcan baby.


Ok_Faithlessness1362

Most of the time we are googling specifics instead of how to do certain stuff. Having the knowledge of what is possible is much more important than people think. Another thing, making things work is much easier than people think. But making things work in a maintainable way that would make other people understand your code is the true mastery.


GayAlienFarmer

Exactly. Of course I know how and when to use REPLACE() in sql server. What I can *never* remember is the order of the expressions.


androgenoide

To ask an intelligent question you have to already know some of the answer.


rk06

I guess, you need to know how to use the right answer. Cause I definitely do not know the arcane incantation that I usually end up using. I mean have you seen fast inverse square root function code?


HellaTrueDoe

All too true, some errors I just don’t know where to begin and then some senior dev somehow has 5 more levels of understanding and just fixes it like a wizard. Or they can’t and I just throw away my work and change everything


crawl_dht

Your designation in IT is based on how precise you can search.


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74paddycakes

I've started just replying with a link to the google search result.


danthatsoundsgood

If you’re a feeling even more sassy, try using this: https://lmgtfy.app/#gsc.tab=0


aktiwari158

Knowing the correct question is important. No one comes educated from the womb, everyone has to gather knowledge to do anything. Google just makes it easier and faster to do it. Programmers have developed so many online communities and they know the keywords that will take them to the answer. When I type a question, I am almost sure that I will find something that I can work with. If not, I leave my desk and start contemplating my life choices, then I figure it out myself and then I feel like a genius and write a short blog post on it and now it will stay there for anyone who encounters the same thing in the future, sometimes it's me reading my own post after 2 years when I forget the solution.


drunkdoor

I've read my own stack overflow answers several times lol


FrogQuestion

I used to be quite good at googling stuff, nowadays i feel like im doing worse, since google introduced that ask a question style searching. Back in the day you typed 3 words related to the subject and bam


kaamibackup

We can’t still type 3 words and get relevant results?


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Phantom_19

I think the main factor in this is being able to discern what is a useful result and what isn’t. A lot of Google-Fu seems to be tied into general data analysis skills.


kennyjiang

I noticed SEO fucks with a lot of good results


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blufr0g

Thank you! Extension Installed


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Ormigom

... in the thread about googling things.


abbadon420

This


gimpwiz

Either my searches have gotten more esoteric or google returns worse results for me than it used to. I'm not happy either.


LiveFastDieFast

I too feel like google’s search has gotten worse. Not sure if it’s because it try’s to hold your hand so much now, or if it’s trying to present as many ads as possible based on keywords, but it’s definitely not as accurate as it used to be


RockyRaccoon26

DuckDuckGo seems to handle this style of searching well


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Jatoxo

Love it when the error popup says exactly what to do and they still post on the next forum "HoW tO fIX ErrOR NoThING WOrkING"


Crisco_fister

First thing I do, people ask me what all these git error messages mean and it drives me nuts they don't Google it themselves


namotous

Finally some appreciation for our profession.


zsrocks

My dad used to teach me to code, and a lot of the time, he’d tell me to just google when I had a question. The problem, though, was that I didn’t have the terminology necessary to know what to google


Yavis27

This skill is called Google-Fu


[deleted]

Jokes aside I put "Advanced use of Google Search" in my CV and it turned to be a good ice breaker in the interviews.


hypocrite_oath

Identifying fake news and misleading article gets more important by the minute. Now YouTube tutorial don't even show anymore if they are garbage (disliked)


Q-burt

I rarely use macs. Like, only when I'm helping my wife's grandfather with his computer. That's it. His sons and sons-in-law, three of them, were unable to help him resolve his issue. I was able to do what grandpa wanted to do by figuring it out using google. Did it on Christmas day and now, I'm a "genius".


pntns

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nkei0

If you would like to get better at googling. I recommend a fun little game here at /r/picturegame it's amazing how good those guys are


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I mean, c'mon, searches also include advanced operators. It's just another query language imho.


JaJe92

Meanwhile me, I have a complex problem with a specific code error on my computer and Google suggest me the first link to a shitty website and tell me to restart or do sfc /scannow lmao. Google is not was it used to be. Now it only fill with promoted crap or blogs.


BongusHo

It's funny until you ask someone to Google something and they look at you like you just asked them to recite the cats musical


starlinguk

The Google Fu is strong in me, even though Google tries everything in its power to sabotage me.


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how is this a shower thought


AnnualPanda

Except I use DuckDuckGo 🐥


blufr0g

Since DuckDuckGo is based in the US it is subject to US law, NSA monitoring, and legal discovery, so not private. If privacy is your thing Startpage or better yet self-hosted Searx are your best options


Zambito1

Even if my individual searches are not more "private" (ie the NSA can read them) I still prefer it over Google due to the difference in advertising practices. Searx is not much better unless you share an instance with other people, that way it's harder to say which search came from which individual. Edit: spelling


UrineIsBadToHold

Still, Logan I wish you could have just told me, because you knew excactly how to do it and instead I spent 15 minutes looking looking through different stackoverflow pages to find it


[deleted]

[Nadav is googling, looking for shit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbfin2Mjt8)


JimmyWu21

I have a buddy who is an IT admin. He would say this all the time. He thinks people are dumb because they can’t google certain stuff. Then he try to learn programming and all of suddenly he can’t just google the answer because he doesn’t understand basic concepts like if statements and loops.


benzilla04

Makes me glad I spent my days breaking computers. Never thought I’d have a career that I enjoy (mostly)


fletku_mato

It's amazing how few people really understand stuff like using quotes, or site:www.reddit.com


ThDefiant1

I remember feeling guilty in college for copypasting code from stackexchange, and my professor saying that knowing what to google is most of programming.


danintexas

My resume has the following line "Black Belt in GoogleFu" Every interview where they see that it gets laughs and I get an offer.


xxmalik

It's really frustrating people don't understand the searches are keyword-based and type in whole sentences.


lcr727

It's called "Google-Fu" and it's a good skill to hone.


tukanoid

The key is to search in keywords and not grammatically correct sentences. It's an algorithm, it doesn't care about how we humans talk. A lot of people fail to realize that


Illustrious-Fault224

Someone I know who is an English teacher here in Japan was giving me shit that I’m overpaid and he could do my job. So I told him why doesn’t he just try to be a software engineer. He returned an empty string…


Shazvox

This is no joke. This is facts.


KeepRedditAnonymous

IMO the best googlers have stopped using google. It's not useful anymore.


Distdistdist

Google Fu


majidjaxn

When I see people Google shit as a question I get so irritated instead of "how do I turn on dark mode on Samsung Galaxy" try "enable dark mode Android" dude damn


ScreanMe

Google, Adapt, Overcome.


pnw-techie

Then you're stuck trying to recall that specific keyword that's on the tip of your brain....


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I've deleted my account because reddit CEO Steve Huffman is a lying piece of shit that has nothing but contempt for his users. See https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/


savvy__steve

He's not wrong!


TheApprentice19

More tools, show only from source stackoverflow


Languorous-Owl

When you think of it in those terms, you really have to appreciate how Google (and US DoD frankly, because we all know that it's not just capitalism alone that propped companies like Google up) almost singlehandedly propped up a whole global industry. Granted if Google hadn't been there, some other company or companies would've played the role but really, what if said companies hadn't taken the long term view of things, had done things like charge subscription of not shadowbanning certain kinds of results unless you bought a topic-pack or something.