When I am bored, as I frequently am at work, I love to Google. Really, I believe that the people behind Google are mad-geniuses! I love that I can type in a string of words and get exactly the result I am looking for - whether it be a recipe using chicken and mushroom soup, the 80's sitcom with theme music lyrics that included the words "standin' tall, on the wings of my dreams," (that's Perfect Strangers - to save you the google), or just some obscure bit o' info that's nagging at me (like the name of the town in Thailand with the Tiger temple featured on the first season of the Amazing Race - Krabi).
As a life-long, self-proclaimed nerd who would go to the encyclopedia to look up something - then end up reading through that volume to see what other things I could learn about - Google might just be the single greatest tool ever. That and Wikipedia, which I also love.
I also love to Google people - it is disturbing how much information is out there about us! I love to think of people that I knew years ago and try google-ing for them. Once in a while I am looking for an old friend who I've lost contact with and want to reconnect with, but sometimes it's just the curiosity that killed the cat.
My google pages: Married name, maiden name, married and maiden name.
Not that all the entires are me - but some are, and some are really embarrassing pages in German that I made while an undergrad. Great.
I also love that google is now its own verb. There is no confusion when telling someone to "google it." As someone who loves making up new words to describe or fit a situation - a love definitely imbued by learning German - it's a neat little linguistic evolution.
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as a blogger who frequently needs pictures to accompany posts, the google "images" feature is so convenient!
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