Sometimes, I’m asked a very basic question which most anyone could answer if they simply looked up the answer online. When that happens, I’m tempted to use a web service to send them the answer. There are two three services:
Say someone emails you and asks “What’s an alternative to dropbox?” Here are two links you could send them; check them out!
Of course, this brings up an interesting question. When you search, what do you look for? Why do you look online? When someone asks you what you think, why did they ask you? Do they look at you as an expert? Or do they not know that several people, perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands, have searched the same thing or wondered the same thing and perhaps even posted answers online? Or are they simply too lazy to type the letters to earch for an answer themselves? Heck, it’s even possible to do a search just by talking (siri, speaktoit, robin, android, desktop)!
For now, I think I’ll choose to believe that people ask me things they could search themselves, because the see me as a smart guy.
PS
While we’re talking about voice and search, check out what you can tell your android to do and check out what happens when you search with bing or google. And just for fun:
And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently ‘my friends are all foolish and I won’t be like them’ and not ‘are my friends ok?’.
