My 12-year-old son has an assignment to read a book that is a favorite of a parent or teacher. He asked me about some of my favorite books from when I was his age.
I actually sat down to figure out what phrase I could use to Google what were my favorite books. Just for a second. :eek:
All in good time…the day when Google analyzes your cumulative search history and figures out what your favorite books were at any given age can’t be too far around the corner.
On the other hand, I’m amazed at some of the things you can Google. Not only have I found children’s books from my childhood this way (http://www.amazon.com/Just-You-Little-Critter-Look-Look/dp/030711838X) but just last night a friend was trying to remember the name of a restaurant in London. All she knew was the area and that it began with G.
I put “restaurants starting with G in Camden” into Google, and lo and behold, first link! I was flabbergasted.
I can’t remember where I first heard or saw this, but some guy was introducing his older mother to computers and the internet. He brought up the site Ask Jeeves and said, “Mom, you can ask it anything you want and it will give you the answer.”
That’s weird - I’m sure Google used to ignore word order and punctuation in searches, so “Paris Hilton” and “Hilton Paris” and “Hilton, Paris” would all give the same results (as long as they weren’t entered in quotes, of course).
It think it was a “Pearls Before Swine” strip where they were talking about Google. The conversation was something like this:
“Wow, is there anything Google doesn’t know?”
“I don’t know. Google it.”