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Info from Google

QVCkitty1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:19:46 GMT

I’ve been wearing contacts since the 70’s . The other day I couldn’t remove one of them and I got extremely frustrated. My IPad was sitting there so I googled my problem, and it said to rub my eyelid and it would put it in place. Well it worked, and that got me wondering what small, but extremely useful info have you received from Google ?

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sunshine45 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:33:19 GMT

DEFINITIONS at my fingertips.....love being able to find something in an instant.....whether it is a legitimate word or a slang term.

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JaneMarple — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:35:40 GMT

Facts at my fingertips.

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ECBG — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:37:16 GMT

I've gotten many propper spellings, definitions, recipe substitutions, recipies, and learned fastinating info about different subjects, especially on Wikipedia, and found pictures of certain things I was looking up.

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Mz iMac — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:45:37 GMT

Nothing

I use DuckDuckGo & Bing. I rarely use Google because it ~~stalks~~ tracks you around the net.

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patbz — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:47:48 GMT

My Son inadvertently turned his dash lights down to nothing and we googled where the control to change this was (on Prius V it's to left of steering wheel). If it hadn't been that it probably was in electrical system but we got lucky with Google.

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JaneMarple — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:47:27 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
I've gotten many propper spellings, definitions, recipe substitutions, recipies, and learned fastinating info about different subjects, especially on Wikipedia, and found pictures of certain things I was looking up.

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FlyersGirl — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:51:39 GMT

@QVCkitty1 Google is my friend. I use it multiple times daily.

Monday, the toilet seat in my master bath broke while I was cleaning it. Ordered a new one from Wallmart and it arrived next day. I tried to get the broken one off and could not as one of the screws was stripped. Googled for help and found multiple ways to remove it, many with videos. I tried the easiest suggestion first and it worked. God bless whoever invented 10W40.

Also a little mad at myself for not thinking of that in the first place LOL.

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Mominohio — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:53:34 GMT

The ability to find out just about anything under the sun with the click of a few keys still amazes me, as I grew up and graduated college with none of this technology in use, and I remember how hard it used to be to find answers to things, and how much digging it could take (and always a trip to at least one library or other place with reference materials on the subject you were searching).

My best friend and I worked together, and we'd get into discussions, often about old time actors or entertainers, and one of us would say " I think he'd dead" and the other would say, "no, I don't think so" and we'd drive ourselves nuts wondering if so and so was still alive or not! LOL Now answers to such thing are just seconds away.

The other great practical application was in raising my son. Kids ask lots of questions and back in the day, moms needed to be walking encyclopedias (or have a set on hand! LOL). By the time he was about 8 we finally got internet, and it was so much easier to answer a lot of his questions in depth, and give many subjects a much deeper discussion than we would have otherwise been able to do.

Now it's easy to find just about anything you want. It has changed life so dramatically, for those of us that remember a time before it's existence and use everyday

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2blonde — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:57:04 GMT

@JaneMarple wrote:
@ECBG wrote:
I've gotten many propper spellings, definitions, recipe substitutions, recipies, and learned fastinating info about different subjects, especially on Wikipedia, and found pictures of certain things I was looking up.

@JaneMarple

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Desertdi — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:58:51 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Nothing

I use DuckDuckGo & Bing. I rarely use Google because it ~~stalks~~ tracks you around the net.

@Mz iMac When I bought this computer, it came with a few sites already installed....one of which was Google. Well, when I went into my bank account, I saw the banner "Bank of ****** brought to you by Google". I nearly had a heart attack......and uninstalled Google immediately.

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cotton4me — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:06:34 GMT

My car locked up and I couldn’t turn the ignition. I Googled the problem and was able to get it to unlock so I could drive home; otherwise, I would have been stranded.

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QVCkitty1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:08:05 GMT

@FlyersGirl wrote:
@QVCkitty1 Google is my friend. I use it multiple times daily.

Monday, the toilet seat in my master bath broke while I was cleaning it. Ordered a new one from Wallmart and it arrived next day. I tried to get the broken one off and could not as one of the screws was stripped. Googled for help and found multiple ways to remove it, many with videos. I tried the easiest suggestion first and it worked. God bless whoever invented 10W40.
Also a little mad at myself for not thinking of that in the first place LOL.

@FlyersGirl , don’t beat yourself up, I once tried to remove a license plate, and couldn’t remove the screws. WD 40 is a miracle worker !

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FlyersGirl — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:15:59 GMT

@QVCkitty1 Thanks indoor kitty! I was so mad at myself I didn't call it by the correct name! WD40. Off to Google "what is wrong with me today?"

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Ms tyrion2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:14:24 GMT

@JaneMarple wrote:
@ECBG wrote:
I've gotten many propper spellings, definitions, recipe substitutions, recipies, and learned fastinating info about different subjects, especially on Wikipedia, and found pictures of certain things I was looking up.

😂😮

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chickenbutt — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:16:28 GMT

I also do it a lot for spellings and definitions.

One other thing I do frequently, due to the fact that I have trouble remembering words now, is that I will type in 'Thesaurus' - then a sort of short definiton of the word I seek and I can't remember a time it didn't come up with the word I sought.

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Helen852 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:18:28 GMT

My granddaughters put a hole in a screen in their play room. Googled how to remove it and put it back in. Took it to hardware store for repair. Also have googled how to clean my double hung windows.

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Montana — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:41:13 GMT

I had three gold chains that were hopelessly twisted together. I found an easy way to untangle them.

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Hippiified — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:02:23 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Nothing

I use DuckDuckGo & Bing. I rarely use Google because it ~~stalks~~ tracks you around the net.

@Mz iMac

Me too.

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Bhvbum — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:52:35 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Nothing

I use DuckDuckGo & Bing. I rarely use Google because it ~~stalks~~ tracks you around the net.

I actually laughed when I read this because if you are on the Internet you are being “tracked” by whatever site you are on.