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Are people too stupid to use Google?

Most the questions I see can be answered using google and the "I'm feeling lucky button"

Stupid? Lazy?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Maybe they're just running out of time to research by themselves.

    Some are really just a Google away, like I see questions that says, "What is the capital of USA?" or "How many states are there in the USA?". Those are really easy and obvious.

    We just have to understand them and look at it positively. We're here to help and be reliable as possible.

  • 5 years ago

    my name

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "Looking things up" is fast becoming a lost skill. Even with Google and the entire internet at our fingertips, some of us cannot manage to do a simple search.

    Then again, I really do think it is just laziness. Although it takes more time to compose, review, and post a question than it would to simply look it up in the first place!

  • 1 decade ago

    Many people here are very new users of computers and are not familiar with the use of a search engine. Others, like myself, prfeer to get info from a rea person. As to google, I avoid it since I want yahoo to get back to being the internet giant it once was. I use yahoo search engines.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You may not believe this but there are people who don't know the difference between a search and a URL. They end of here because they use Yahoo as a home page and there is a link there.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Lazy. Why bother to search it myself when I can job out the task for a mere two points?

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe both, or in some cases maybe they want another opinion?

  • 1 decade ago

    sometimes they need an opinion and not google.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe

  • 1 decade ago

    YES! Like "Who is [insert historic figure]?"

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