Comment on Had to look this up

• deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …wut

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do people no longer know how to google things?

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    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!

      Thanks again!

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.

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    • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
      Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?

        Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.

        If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They never really did.

      Also I never really used Google. I am a duckduckgo or brave search or even startpage type of guy.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Just FYI - Startpage is also using Google’s search index, so you’re kind of also “googling”.

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