Re: OT(?): Price comparison across specific websites
- From: zoara <me18@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 May 2010 10:21:01 GMT
Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
zoara <me18@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
[...]
Google-Fu is endlessly powerful.
It always strikes me as curious that people use Google all the time
(I mean, literally all the time -- plenty of people use Google instead
of typing in a URL, and Chrome sort of encourages this, really)
Someone I help out once in a while with computer issues gets to her
yahoo mail by googling yahoo, which always amuses me. I offered to show
her a quicker way and she said she'd rather stick to the way she knows.
And isn't "google" often very high in the most-googled phrases?
and
yet hardly anyone knows how to use it properly, ie. beyond the very
basics.
That's in common with most users of most software, though. Look at
corporate use of Word; almost everything that almost everyone uses it
for could be acheived (with less pain) using WordPad or TextEdit.
That's one reason I believe the iPad and iPhone have been successful -
typically the apps strip away 80% of the functionality, which - for the
average user is a boon, as it drastically reduces complexity. Although I
- as a geek - appreciate the adding of features like multitasking and
folders, I worry that the platform is losing sight of one of its
greatest features...
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