Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"?
Do you ever find yourself thinking in keywords when away from the internet, as if Google were an extension of you? I think I did too much research online over the past few days and I noticed Google is reshaping the way I think. Ten years ago if I heard someone interject a few disjoint words, I wouldn't think much of it. Now I wonder if they're "thinking in Google", too.
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I've tried to ⌃⌘D a word in a real book before.
Also caught myself searching for ⌘Z after spilling something.
Also caught myself searching for ⌘Z after spilling something.
I once thought to myself that I needed to set the coffee cup to zero, then I realized that I actually meant wash it.
If only it were all that easy.
Though I suppose a little work is better than the coffee cup exploding because we forgot to free some memory for the toaster.
Though I suppose a little work is better than the coffee cup exploding because we forgot to free some memory for the toaster.
Recently I've woken up thinking in C. I'll say hi to my wife, and immediately check to make sure that in my mind, there were parentheses and a semicolon after I said 'hi'.
That too. In various programming languages, Lisp a few weeks ago. Luckily not the parenthesis part for me, though.
(edit - curiously it's most often when waking up also)
(edit - curiously it's most often when waking up also)
While focusing on a problem, my google-fu always seems to diffuse. An example from today:
ie7 css background-image second try load page
Unsurprisingly, this did not return the results I was looking for.
ie7 css background-image second try load page
Unsurprisingly, this did not return the results I was looking for.
I feel vindicated: http://afeeblemind.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-you-think-in-goog...