# Let Me Google That for You **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006 "2009-05-01T19:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/21 "2009-05-05T03:19:58Z")
OK, **Parental Advisory** , you have a point. I stand corrected. There are an inordinate number of lazy assholes that would deserve such a response. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/22 "2009-05-05T13:59:13Z")
Might be fun and useful around here: [http://tinyurl.com/c2xk85](http://tinyurl.com/c2xk85) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/23 "2009-05-05T18:06:30Z")
Ha, I discovered this about a week ago and still think it’s pretty much the coolest thing ever. The perfect opportunity to be informative and a smartass at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/24 "2009-05-05T18:25:16Z")
[A-freaking-men](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516534) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/25 "2009-05-05T19:11:11Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Just because someone tosses out a question does not mean that they were too stupid to navigate a simple search engine. But sometimes, that’s exactly what it means. I was in a thread last week where a poster kept asking for a link to the rules of MLB baseball, because he couldn’t find it. He ignored one poster’s directions of entering “baseball rules”. It’s the first friggin’ hit on Google! I’ve actually been trying to figure out what he could have been entering that would come up with unhelpful links. “Baseball rules” = success “rules of baseball” = success “mlb rules” = success ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/26 "2009-05-05T19:49:42Z")
Mods, I noticed I’d been beaten to the punch by an identical thread title (even though I searched the forums first??) from a couple days ago…can we merge threads? > **[Let Me Google That for You](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516109)** > > Do you constantly find yourself linking information that could have easily been looked up by the people you’re responding to? I give you: Let Me Google That for You. You input a Google search, and it provides you with a link that will first (a)... ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/27 "2009-05-05T20:07:04Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Jeeze, can you still breathe oxygen up there on those high horses of yours? > > Do you not see any value to human conversation? I would estimate that over 90% of the things we discuss here could be resolved with a lifetime of Googles. Just because someone tosses out a question does not mean that they were too stupid to navigate a simple search engine. Yes. I’ve been guilty of asking questions I could have easily googled. The reason I ask it here tho’ is because I like the interaction. But as **ParentalAdvisory** points out; I’m not going to ask something so mind-numbingly stupid as “Hey guys, how do you spell blah-blah?” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/28 "2009-05-05T20:18:20Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Mods, I noticed I’d been beaten to the punch by an identical thread title (even though I searched the forums first??) from a couple days ago…can we merge threads? > > [Let Me Google That for You - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516109) Done. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/29 "2009-05-05T20:19:54Z")
> [@bink](#): > > It especially bothers me when the word in question is unique and extremely Googleable. > Me: “I’ve been checking out Shovelglove lately; it looks really cool.” > Them: “Shovelglove? What’s that?” > Me: LMGTFY > > I mean come on. When a word is that unusual, you can probably type it into the location bar and get something useful if you’re too dense to use Google. When somebody raves about [some obscure pop-culturey/internet-meme phenomenon](http://www.shovelglove.com/) without elaborating on what it is or even giving any sort of “context clues,” it is _ **exactly** _ because he wants someone to follow up with “lolwut?” rather than run a Google search. Consequently, the appropriate response to ask “lolwut?” or run a Google search according to whether you want to indulge your interlocutor’s fanboy paeans. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006/30 "2009-05-05T20:39:27Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > can we merge threads? Don’t you have to at least buy me dinner first? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-google-that-for-you/495006.md?page=1)