I’m not gonna QS the asshat, but seriously my mediocre dude: Admit that back when search engines functioned, but also required thoughtful, nuanced, search processes, you couldn’t figure out how to use them.
May 7, 2025 23:10I spend decades working in jobs where I did a lot of finding info on search engines on completely random topics for customers. I can not overemphasize how many folks are positive they are “great at google”
who are in fact, horrible at asking questions.
Now, for my Fellow Book Olds, there was also a system called IBID. And it was…a very picky, twitchy system. So you had to input searches in weird specific ways. But customers over your shoulder absolutely couldn’t fathom that and would yell useless instructions.
“There is a ‘The’ in the title! You’re typing it wrong”
“Why don’t you just type the word Love and see what comes up?”
“Search for books with blue covers”
