More like googling skills. Definitely got some of my first jobs by telling my interviewer that I google shit I don’t know

Where was this?

Random software company downtown toronto in 2012

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RSC ™ was great!

You might be surprised at how many people don’t really know how to use Google/a search engine effectively.

Things like “what should I search for to find X” is a sentence I hear from both friends and colleagues quite often.

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Or people that type http://www.Google.com into the address bar?

Am I missing something? Lol /s

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It’s just unnecessary extra inefficient steps, usually by people not particularly tech-proficient. Not a moral judgement, just an observation!

Most browsers I run into, you can search from the address bar. You can also disable or point to a different search engine, if you want. So you could skip going to the site. That aside…most browsers would accept google.com and not need the full https://www

I say most anecdotally as I haven’t tested them all.

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I know that’s the point, which is why I said it. The person I replied to asked if they were missing something, so I was attempting to educate them on said point. Then they edited their post to add the /s after the fact.

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I had a coworker in the early 00s that would repeatedly fail to search for something because she would type “www.goggles.com” into the address bar.

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