You don’t Google hard enough
This post is originally published at peterhub.dev
TLDR: You don’t Google hard enough is from my point of view as a software engineer after using Internet for ten years. I want to share my opinion and experience when searching with Google and tell you why we need to have Googling as a must-have soft skill in today’s world.
This post does not endorse Google, I’m not a Google fanboy. However, in the search engine world, Google is the most popular and probably the best one (except for privacy). I will use Google term a lot as most of us are familiar with it.
Ok let’s go back to the time before search engine become a thing, where people had to remember the exact website URLs to get access.
Back then, if people want to read news on Yahoo, they must go to news.yahoo.com. People have to pull out the exact link from their heads, which’s somehow cumbersome if they have quite a bunch of their favorite websites. Luckily, Google and her friendly neighbors like Bing, DuckDuckGo have come to the rescue.
My online help desk
I rarely used any search engine for looking around in the first couple of years having Internet. I listened to music on nhaccuatui.com, watched videos on YouTube, played games on y8, etc. Things have changed when I got into university to study Computer Science.
Since then, Google is like my secondary teacher. She always comes to help whenever I had problems with my homework. Gradually, Google has become my first choice of asking questions. Anything I don’t know, I google it, software bug, cooking recipe, funny cat videos, trending tech, anything, literally.
Keyword is the key
At first, I struggled with Google to get exactly what I want or what error I am dealing with. “Practice make perfect” we say, time after time, I can get a good grasp of googling properly. There are times my friends and co-workers can’t find solution for their problems and then I come to them confidently with an answer just because I know how to put correct keyword in a search phrase.
People ask me things I don’t know
Of course I’m not a superhero who knows everything about tech, but people around me (family and friends) tend to ask me a lot. I tell them “Hold on, gimme a sec”, and get back to them with the answer, thanks to the power I have within my phone. Simple as that.
Conclusion
Even a kid knows how to Google, the point is we should put Google first in mind when searching for things or learning new stuffs. In a workplace, just don’t bother your colleagues with your question until you find an answer on Google. There are tips on the Internet that could help you search efficiently and make your daily life less painful.
I’m pretty sure most of the time you can’t get what you want just because you don’t Google hard enough.
