# Just @#!\*-ing Google It!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 17, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205 "2004-08-17T04:44:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205/41 "2004-08-23T03:08:56Z")

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Well I’ll be damned **Number** , damned if it ain’t so. I originally found this place from a Google search and used it a number of times to find stuff at the SDMB. I imagine people were using Google to find quotes that they’d cite without permission from the Reader. That’d explain shutting down the search ability here to guests as well. Must’ve been part of the upgrade last Spring. I learn something everyday here if I try hard enough.  
I guess I’m just hacking away at my own ignorance. That’s a good thing! 😉

Ditto what **Sam** said. “If you don’t like a question, don’t answer it.”  
Always good advice that is.

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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205/42 "2004-08-24T01:47:06Z")

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I was in another thread that asked how people found the boards. It prompted me to recall that I did in fact use a different search engine to get here, not Google. It still finds posts made to these boards.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205/43 "2004-08-24T01:59:57Z")

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I’m _glad_ more folks don’t use Google to find their answers! I’ll be browsing GQ, and read a question that makes me think “hmmm, I should read this thread; I’d like to know what the answer to this question is, even though I’d have never thought to ask”. Plus, as others have pointed out, I like the exchange of ideas that accompanies the answers. I mean, let’s face it, if Cecil just gave flat-out factual answers to the questions folks send him, we wouldn’t love him so much. He gives facts and _pontificates_ on the answers. Google will not give you that!

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ing-google-it/260205/44 "2004-08-24T02:32:02Z")

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Well I’ve hardly ever ventured into GQ, but I’d a darn sight rather have one of our dopers with their clever ways of putting things answer a Q for me than search engines.

And as **Sam** said “so what?, what’s it to ya”??? don’t like it, don’t read them, sheesh, how hard is that?

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