Hahhahahahah.. only a geek like me would find this funny...

[LOLyourFace]

I'm at the library and this 16 yr old girl sat down next to me and started doing her search.

She went to www.ask.com and literally "asked."

She typed,

Where can I buy the book, "My little blah blah blah" for a cheap price?"


It got her the right results but such casual use of the internet made me smile a bit....

I would've just googled simply typing the author's name and title...

 

[alexeikgb]

Haha... and I thought the kids these days are internet savy... guess not

 

[pulse8]

A true geek would've gone to froogle and gotten that info.

 

[Platypus]

pedophile

 

[Megatomic]

You don't call that savvy? She used the internet and got what she wanted rather quickly from the looks of things. I call that effective at the very least.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: pulse8
A true geek would've gone to froogle and gotten that info.

Nah, a true geek would have know the cheapest place and skipped the searching.

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: pulse8
A true geek would've gone to froogle and gotten that info.

a true geek would've gone to addinall.com (search engine that searches over 20 major online bookstores)

 

[mobobuff]

Yeah, usually people who don't understand the simple concepts of search engine techniques use Ask.com. It works for them so I don't try to teach them other ways.

 

[nakedfrog]

I used to interview askjeeves. It was fun. I think I've still got some screenshots at home of humorous responses to questions.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

A true geek would've fired up kazaa

 

[Chronoshock]

A true geek would have done all this though the command line connecting to IPs (bah who needs DNS)

 

[Kelvrick]

Shut up, a true geek woulda known all that and wouldn't have needed the book in the first place.

 

[Hankerton]

I've officially decided this has been the dumbest thread of the day.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
You don't call that savvy? She used the internet and got what she wanted rather quickly from the looks of things. I call that effective at the very least.

Exactly. Altavista.com used to do searches in exactly that way - you'd ask it a question, and your search results would vary based on how your phrased the question. I often search that way using google for something I can't find easily with a simple search, because it's pretty likely someone else has asked the same question on an Internet forum somewhere and has gotten useful responses.

 

[BooGiMaN]

a true geek also doesnt get laid so they over analyze other geeks life experiences living vicariously through them because he came in such close contact with a living breathing female.....

 

[Hankerton]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
a true geek also doesnt get laid so they over analyze other geeks life experiences living vicariously through them because he came in such close contact with a living breathing female.....

Well said!

 

[Bryophyte]

Do any of the current search engines work that way anymore? I was wondering that the other day when I was looking for an answer to something and was thinking "It would be much more efficient if I could just ask the damned question." Not often that I need it, but it would be handy.

 

[SWScorch]

my girlfriend is like that. She doesn't understand that search engines use keywords, so she will ask Google questions like that. I try to teach her to use simple keywords that would be used to describe what she is looking for, but she just doesn't seem to grasp it. And she never looks past the first page of results either.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace

Originally posted by: pulse8
A true geek would've gone to froogle and gotten that info.

a true geek would've gone to addinall.com (search engine that searches over 20 major online bookstores)

a true geek would know that it's actually addall.com

 

[DougK62]

Was she hot? Pics?

 

[Ranger X]

How did you know she was 16?

 

[Syringer]

I thought when you said she literally asked that she said it aloud to the computer.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: pulse8
A true geek would've gone to froogle and gotten that info.

Nah, a true geek would have know the cheapest place and skipped the searching.

don't you mean ferrengi

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: Syringer
I thought when you said she literally asked that she said it aloud to the computer.

Hello, computer.

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: Syringer
I thought when you said she literally asked that she said it aloud to the computer.

Hello, computer.

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