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>>Been talking about this a lot with friends/peers recently. Personally I think half the skill is knowing what to Google. Yes, exactly. I said this a few days
by enraged_camel 11y ago
>>Been talking about this a lot with friends/peers recently. Personally I think half the skill is knowing what to Google.
Yes, exactly. I said this a few days ago in another similar discussion: Google is really good at "meta-guidance." If I search for something and don't get any results, it means I'm either asking the question incorrectly, or I'm trying to solve the wrong problem.
Which brings me to the subject at hand: if someone is really good at Google'ing answers on a topic, then they're most likely good at that topic. I believe it was Einstein who said (I may be misattributing the quote here): never memorize something you can look up easily.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> Which brings me to the subject at hand: if someone is really good at Google'ing answers on a topic, then they're most likely good at that topic. So much this. I noticed this myself. When I google for information in the domains I know, I can be extremely efficient, because I know what to ask for and how to evaluate both results and the metadata - i.e. how much results I got, how good/crappy they are, etc. But when I try to search for information on topics I have little to no experience in, I struggle to find what I'm looking for. And more often than not, I'm left with this feeling of incompleteness, like the information I needed was still out there, if I could only phrase my query correctly...