Not sure if everyone knows this, but: if you don't want to answer the question—you don't have to post a reply! Crazy idea, I know.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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what if i want to answer the question but i have none of the relevant knowledge and also don’t really understand the question itself?
Just Google it.
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I don't actually own this, but I saw it used once 10 years by my fathers aunts best friend. I guess it would work for what you need it for.
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"just Google it" has always been a shitty reply. People are asking for your opinion because they want opinions from people, not some nameless site/author/whatever. Even if you're just regurgitating information, it's coming from a PERSON not a random article. Never mind the reliability of the source. Heavens forbid that we social creatures social about a thing for a bit.
"I'm not responsible for educating you"
cool, then stfu and let somebody else or nut up and do the work if you want it done right
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I feel like it’s 2000 all over again on the Internet. The bloat has made pages borderline unusable, and using AdBlock or NoScript reverts any so-called "design progress" back to the good old HTML days.
Google is only semi-useful now, while pages like DuckDuckGo are starting to deliver results reminiscent of the old Yahoo or Lycos days.
It feels like my trusty, old-school Internet skills are helping me navigate this mess. The reemergence of usenet / groups feels inevitable.
It's like a bouncing ball, social media starts small, and then it became bigger. It's trending on becoming small again. In the future (barring civilization ending war/calamity) it'll become big again due to some technological progress or shift in society.
The amount of times I've googled a problem, and the first result is a forum post of someone just being told to google it then locking the thread is way too high.
These ones plus "this is a duplicate of <link to question that is only kinda related and doesn't address the specific problem being asked in the newer question>".
Fuck busy body moderators. The people you "have power" over can see how stupid and incompetent you are and being able to shut down forum conversations about it doesn't hide it, it just means people know not to bother saying it where you're looking.
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I'm starting to give up on Google. I've literally copy and pasted the same error message in Google, DuckDuckGo, and Kagl.
Google will respond with "no results found" while the others will actually give me a response.
okay so it's not just me then! I've been seeing that zero matches page more and more. It used to be the other way around, if I couldnt find something on DDG or startpage it would be on google. how did they fuck up their indexing so badly
I think zero matches means "we weren't able to find any suitable ads so we don't give a fuck about you"
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Yeah, I ditched Google as my default search engine a while ago. It's next to useless and they're a horrible company.
Test kagi too
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If you don't show me that you at least made some effort to investigate: No.
Its a bit annoying when i google something and search forums and cant find an answer and i go to ask reddit or a forum and someone says"just google it" like am i really expected to make a preamble every ask-post that I've searched already?
i really expected to make a preamble every ask-post that I’ve searched already?
Yes. You need to show your effort, otherwise your question will be considered lazy. This is specially true regarding technical issues in volunteer forums.
The seminal essay "How To Ask Questions the Smart Way" explains these and other finer points.
Noooooo don't Just Google it try, Use a Search Engine or just WebSearch it
Dont't make Google an integral part of internet culture
on one hand I agree. on the other, google has historically been afraid of the verb to google becoming generic, so of course I'd like to see that happen.
I think the middle ground is say google it, but make it clear you mean google it on an alternative search engine
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I wish I had the power to make google a not integral part of the internet just by calling it duckduckgoing.
On that note: If you talk about what you searched for last week, would that be "I duckduckgoed" or "I duckduckwent"?
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Check on Ecosia!
If someone actually wants help searching Lemmy or the Fediverse, I recommend this site: https://fedi-search.com/
Very simple, but it does the job. It's also good if one wants to learn advanced Google queries.
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Never say just, and if you bother answering be proper about it
I agree even though I will sarcastically answer things with how easy it was to find, but I still give the information. I ask questions about things I could google myself, but I am not looking for just and answer. oftentimes Im looking for a nuanced answer and hope to find someone with knowledge around the subject that can give me a human take. not that I need a human take to know whats human because im so human myself and all. its not alien at all to me and hey who said anything about aliens. heh. heh.
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