Flutterby™! : LMGTFY

LMGTFY

2024-10-12 17:56:22.406083+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

RT Josh Jersild @JoshJers@peoplemaking.games

One thing that I was trying to describe to the 15-year-old is that, when I was in college, google worked *so well* to find basically exactly what you were searching for that there was a site called "Let Me Google That For You" where you could snarkily send someone their question back and they'd see it animate the process of typing their question into google, then get the search results and bam, there's the answer to their question

I would *never* consider doing that now because almost never is the first hit the actual thing you want (and, honestly, it's getting rarer that it's top 10)

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#Comment Re: LMGTFY made: 2024-10-13 00:13:48.204103+02 by: markd

or the "I'm feeling lucky" button. TBH I'm surprised it's still there since it bypasses the page with the millions of ads and the bad AI summary.

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