Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"?

Posted by jgroch on Monday August 03, 2009 @08:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by seasoup on Monday August 03, 2009 @09:26PM (#740455)

Yes.. that is, yes you did too much research online over the past few days!

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by jgroch on Monday August 03, 2009 @09:44PM (#740471)

I hope that's it. I don't want to become any more incoherent than I already am.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by mcav on Monday August 03, 2009 @11:02PM (#740571)

I've tried to ⌃⌘D a word in a real book before.

Also caught myself searching for ⌘Z after spilling something.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by iterationx on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @12:19AM (#740641)

I once thought to myself that I needed to set the coffee cup to zero, then I realized that I actually meant wash it.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by mcav on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @01:40AM (#740709)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by TallGuyShort on Monday August 03, 2009 @10:47PM (#740549)

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'.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by jgroch on Monday August 03, 2009 @10:56PM (#740562)

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)

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by rwolf on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @12:41AM (#740658)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"? by jgroch on Monday August 03, 2009 @11:01PM (#740567)

I feel vindicated: http://afeeblemind.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-you-think-in-goog...

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