oh Here, Let Me Google That For You

"Let Me Google That for you" or lmgtfy.com. to some it may be considered the A-Hole move of the year, pulled by a condescending Technological "fanboy" , and depending on when it is used it very well may be.

But lets look at it another way, shall we. lmgtfy can actually be looked at with the same viewpoint as

";Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

Google (or Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo and countless others) is the online version of someone fishing for something, that something is information.

Many times I have friends post to their Facebook timelines questions like "Does anyone know anything about [insert the topic here] ?" while being specific to tag Me in their post, hoping I know the answer.  Honestly though, there are many times where I actually do not know the answer and as such go to the process of highlighting their enquiry, right clicking and selecting

"Search Google for `content highlighted here` "

then return the link to the top response to the person as it usually have the information they are looking for (Truth is usually if your answer is not on the first page of results it is not correct anyway)

Now do not get me wrong, I am not saying that there are times when I would flat out refuse to help someone who can not find the answer they need, but with a website like lmgtfy I hopefully can show the user that in the time they took to post up the enquiry, waiting for someone to give them the answer, they actually could have done the following

point your browser to google (Most modern browsers actually let you just search from the address bar anyway)
Enter in the search query you are interested in
research the results

Besides there is always that bit of pride one can have when they can say "Yup, I did all the research Myself and got exactly what I was looking for"

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