Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Admittedly, chocolate pudding before bed time may not be a prudent choice.
Today is Google's 5th Anniversary. So many birthdays this time of year. This means that Google started when I was a freshman in college. I wonder when I started to use it. I wonder what I used before Google for my search needs, for I would be quite crippled without it today. I guess I did not really use internet much pre-College of Engineering.
I found another use for Google--Spell Check. Let's say you are typing in your Long Day's Journal Into Night and you do not know how to spell, say hypothetically, "admittedly." I might hypothetically think, "What a bother to open a word file, type 'admittadly,' right click on word, select spell check and boom!"
Instead I might just type 'admittadly' into Google and hit enter and it will ask you ever so politely, "Did you mean: Admittedly?"
"Why yes, of course I did, and just in case you were wondering it was simply a typo, of course I know how to spell admittedly."
"Of course," is agrees politely.
It's politeness is underlined by the fact that it searches for the misspelled word, as though to say, "See look, people all over the web made the same spelling error, er, I meaning typing error as you."
Today is Google's 5th Anniversary. So many birthdays this time of year. This means that Google started when I was a freshman in college. I wonder when I started to use it. I wonder what I used before Google for my search needs, for I would be quite crippled without it today. I guess I did not really use internet much pre-College of Engineering.
I found another use for Google--Spell Check. Let's say you are typing in your Long Day's Journal Into Night and you do not know how to spell, say hypothetically, "admittedly." I might hypothetically think, "What a bother to open a word file, type 'admittadly,' right click on word, select spell check and boom!"
Instead I might just type 'admittadly' into Google and hit enter and it will ask you ever so politely, "Did you mean: Admittedly?"
"Why yes, of course I did, and just in case you were wondering it was simply a typo, of course I know how to spell admittedly."
"Of course," is agrees politely.
It's politeness is underlined by the fact that it searches for the misspelled word, as though to say, "See look, people all over the web made the same spelling error, er, I meaning typing error as you."
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