Why do people ask basic questions on YA when there's Google?

to get attention

Have often wondered at this 'asking stupid question trend, ' as there seems no reason at all for such a degree of stupidity, We also get American contributors who ask such ridiculously simple arithmetic problems that it unbelievable. A a four year old could answer these problems, then it can only be that these questions are asked intentionally, for for what purpose is unknown.

Cannot see any advantage in looking thick or giving the impression that your mentally deficient. Can someone please offer an explanation perhaps ?

Is it safe to drink bleach?

Update: if I want to know something, then maybe I would first look it up. If I can't find an answer, then I would try to do troubleshooting, so I can get an answer. If I can't find anything, then I would ask someone what I want to know. Perhaps someone has an answer, or nobody has an answer to my question(s).

In my opinion, I think less effort is made here to ask, and answer questions than on Google. I also think it's a lot easier to ask, and answer questions here than on google.

Not all questions are basic. There are questions that are very difficult to answer. I have answered a lot of questions here, and I admit that some of them were easy to answer, and some of them were very hard to answer.

For example:

There are people who ask questions about how to hack, and there are people who have difficulty with their web programming, and they need help to troubleshoot whatever problems they have with it.

Googling to find an answer might be possible to do, but sometimes it can take a long time to find an answer on Google.

Google might not have an answer, depending on the question asked here,

Sometimes I ask here, because I'm too lazy to actually do a google search and find out myself...

I'm not trolling Random Guy... There's some stuff which actually requires more searching than just a simple google search.

Google is the name of a company. Here is a question for you. Is it technically possible to google something using the Yahoo search engine? I worked in a data center for 13 years and google was not used to imply "internet search" but it is easier to say and has become the understood meaning. Back to your question, I think it is a part of today''s socially inclined younger generation to try to interact and ask questions. Almost all windows 10 questions can be searched off line using the built in search engine but it seems very few folks use it. To your point, a question can be typed into a on line search engine exactly as it would be worded if asked here and the results will be plentiful. For grins, I did a qoogle search on your question and got several answers. One site was

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31104/why...

Same reason there are different browsers and different search engines, also different makes of car - CHOICE.

that has been speculated upon since YA answered opened. and the answer really is: who really knows? also why people post on here when it would be faster going to the source (when does store X close?, for example). Laziness comes to mind.

90% of those are trolls trying to get under your skin. It must be working.