And this is why I have always hated every single jackass that responded to a question with "just Google it" even when Google didn't completely suck cock.
If I had just one single answer from a reputable source doing that, I wouldn't be asking real people. Search engines were never infallible. Niche topics have always garnered shit results.
This was always dickhead behaviour, but not for the reasons you guys are circlejerking about. Often the answers to these questions are extremely easy to find online (even today, Google is nowhere near as useless as people make it out to be). But the entire point of asking other people through social media or a forum is because you want to engage in discussion with other humans. That's literally the entire point of these websites: to foster discussion, both for the sake of learning and for the social entertainment we all need. People who sign up to them and then completely shutdown attempts to start discussions are absolutely braindead and don't understand any of this. Modern forms of social media only encourage this kind of performative social interaction. So many people seem to think the sole purpose of discussion-based social media is to dunk on others with a vicious reply and "win" by earning more points (ratio) instead of having an actual back and forth discussion with another human.
Literally happens all the damn time anymore
Whole first page is ads and threads of people saying, 'Just Google it,' 'There's a search function here for a reason,' 'thread locked due to frequently asked question,' etc, etc.
I miss the earlier days of the Internet where people were more helpful. Or hell when Google wasn't just ads and SEO crap.
I FOUND A STACK OVERFLOW QUESTIONS RECENTLY THAT WAS LITERALLY THIS!
Nr. 1 accepted answer (lots of years ago): something something plenty of information available on Google, no need for this thread
Nr. 2 answer (way fewer years ago): seeing as this is now the first Google result for anything relating to this, here's how you do it.
(shame I can't remember what exactly the question was. Please still believe me? 🥺)
It was even wrose when there was a site by the name "let me google it for you", which insulted you while made an animation about how to use this "not evil" website google. You google "how to do [X]" find a nice looking forum, and people either are angry that OP didn't google it, or they deceptively linked to a lmgify page.
After a month of suffering, I instead reinstalled Windows XP, which I had a lot of trouble with (fugly UI, stability issues, performance issues, etc), but not as much as with the "king of stability", Linux.
All those letMeGoogleThat links from the 00s have turned into Rick Rolls (figuratively speaking).
See also: The less hostile but equally useless advice to "Search online"
God, I feel this in my bones. I always hated the scumbags who acted this way so much. I'm really glad I'm not the only one...
I tried to get into making Skyrim mods, but some basic info just isn't on any forums. I then find it discussed on discord servers as if it's common knowledge discovered a while ago, but those same servers also perpetuate myths from Morrowind that were debunked a decade ago by an experienced modder. However, that modder is also a toxic asshole who's now impossible to work with, so finding reliable info from him after 2018 is hard. All the while I'm just sitting here wondering if it's even worth the effort.
Anybody remember this site? Google used to be so good that anybody with half a brain could find a good result if they would just type a basic phrase into it.
Me scrolling through 150 stackoverflow pages and 'helpful' third party websites that don't answer my question
Not sure about [x], but here’s how you do [y]
...GoOgLe is YoUr fRiENd....
springs to mind
This is why I only search somethingawful's archives for answers to my questions.
i've been there too... i understand your pain panel 4
Lmgtfy used to be a great site to send to people when they asked easily googled questions. Now it's a bloated shit site that barely works if it even still exists. It would do a flash animation on how to go to Google.com, type in their question and click search. I always got a kick out of sending it to people. R.i.p old Internet. You were great.
