Your "how did we do anything in the days before Google" moments

[MsWhatsit]

@Hazle_Weatherfield

I have a serious question. What’s the advantage of a Google search over a Yahoo search? I have used Google maybe five times in my life. What’s so great about it?

For the record, Yahoo search is now powered by the Bing search engine, so your actual question is why Google is better than Bing. Possibly this is just semantic nitpicking, but I think a lot more people have opinions on Bing vs. Google than on Yahoo vs. Google. I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know until you asked this question that Yahoo even still had a usable search engine. I thought they’d switched entirely over to being a portal site a long time ago.

Here’s a fairly detailed comparison from PC World about the differences between Google and Bing.

[Corcaigh]

In a similar situation to the OP, I RTFM. There I was at the petrol pump and I couldn’t get the ‘door’ over the petrol cap to open. I tried pushing it in (thinking it would ping out), I tried prising it open. I opened the passenger door (petrol cap is on the passenger side) and looked for a button or lever.

In the end I gave up and looked in the manual, and discovered a tiny black ‘trigger’, on the floor near the driver door.

[Hermitian]

Life before Google.