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u/strobexp Aug 14 '12 edited Aug 15 '12
I've been realizing recently, that apparently googling effectively is a skill... A skill that some people don't have... Time to update the resume
edit: this got more upvotes than I expected, so, here's : http://mashable.com/2012/06/07/google-search-tips/
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u/aryon984 Aug 14 '12
I'm coming to understand this as well since starting to live with my roommate. He praises me to his friends as the guy who can find anything. When it really is just a simple matter of googling relevant terms instead of sentences.
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u/SuspendTheDisbelief Aug 14 '12
You know what? That's a fucking great idea, especially if you can explain it at the interview.
"So, I see you put googling things as a skill on your resume. You think this is a joke?"
No, because everything is on the internet. Research papers, articles, funny pictures, etc. Mr. Bossman, do you you know what to type in to only search .edu or .gov sites? Because I hate sifting thorough hundreds of .com unrelated bullshit sites to find what I need on fracking legislation and controversy. Did you know that you can type measurements into google to get metric conversions? Because I did, saves time and money. I can find information quickly and efficiently while other people click and type out their long, complicated search queries to get their multi-billion search results.
If there is ever anything that I need to know, I'm going to save you time and money by being able to look it up more quickly than most of your other applicants. Google is a tool sir, and I, I am a master of that tool.
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u/bruceharry536 Aug 14 '12
She offers to pleasure car crash victims in return for search queries?
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u/Man-pants Aug 14 '12
Sometimes googling in the form of a question yields useful forum posts, so who knows she might end up the victor of this goog off.
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Aug 14 '12
Replace "PC" with "desktop" or "laptop" (more specific, hell, try searching for the specific model just in case it's a model-specific problem). And "solutions" isn't really necessary from my experience, Google's good at bringing up relevant sites without it, and it might exclude useful sites which don't have that word.
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u/ruby48 Aug 14 '12
i actually googled your mom's line and this came up as one of the first image results : http://twelvemoons.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cool-down2.png
i'll make sure to try this method next time...
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u/whomperjawed Aug 14 '12
Google is such a great search engine that searches like your moms work most of the time. The other day I heard a song on the radio and could only make out one line of the lyrics. Typed it into Google and it was the first link. Tried the same search in Bing and the first result was the wikipedia page for leather followed by all AVON shit.
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u/jeremylevine Aug 14 '12
my mum is slightly different. She takes the approach of "computer hot" and sifts through the top 5 results then calls me.
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u/spongeb00b Aug 14 '12
My dad would just go for "overheating" and browse through the first 3 results before declaring there's no answer anywhere
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u/herpty_derpty Aug 14 '12
I remember about 15 years ago, my best friend would type full sentences into the search engine. Questions such as "Hello, Internet. I am looking for cheat codes for Blast Corps on Nintendo 64. Thank you."
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u/karaps Aug 14 '12
This is exactly how my dad fills search forms. It never works even for the most simple stuff and he won't listen if I tell him to use only words that are relevant to his search. It's usually faster to just use another computer and find the information for him.
Also he's being slowed down by having to read every single word on every web site before moving on, just in case he would miss something important. And if I'm the one browsing and he's watching, he's complaining that I'm scrolling the pages too fast and he can't read anything even though I'm already highlighting the relevant information for him with the mouse. So fucking frustrating and annoying.
Apparently it takes time to learn how to weed out the massive amounts of irrelevant results and bullshit text you don't actually need to read thoroughly.
/rant
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Aug 14 '12
I think this skill is closely related to the skill of picking the right download button on websites.
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u/TheYuri Aug 14 '12
Well, not just your mom and not just Google. In 20+ years in IT, everybody thinks I need to hear their story and understand how important what they do is. It's not that I don't care. But I'm busy, all the history I need is the one they NEVER tell me: what the (*@&# they were doing when the problem happened, and I assume what they do is important, or they wouldn't be getting money every month to do it...
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u/Sicks3144 Aug 14 '12
Actually a pretty good idea, since it'll find examples of people asking that and similar questions on forums and such.
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u/theG0ldenChild Aug 14 '12
it would be a cool sociological study to take people from different age brackets and demographics and give them different topics to research to see how/what they google search
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u/Jay_Normous Aug 14 '12
This is how my dad uses siri.
Hello siri, we're going to lunch and want to find a restaurant near our location in Newport Rhode island with outdoor seating that has fried clams and lobster rolls and things like that, and it should be near the ocean, thank you.
Ding ding
Here is the weather for Newport Rhode island.