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[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\"." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics..." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous.", ">\n\nI once said something similar on a thread and was downvoted into oblivion. Google isn't going to relay the human part of certain things. The nuance of it all.\nThere are times when \"google it\" works as a response, but there are times where input from people is the better. What if I'd rather have a conversation and human interaction?\nI can't upvote this as I agree depending on the topic." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous.", ">\n\nI once said something similar on a thread and was downvoted into oblivion. Google isn't going to relay the human part of certain things. The nuance of it all.\nThere are times when \"google it\" works as a response, but there are times where input from people is the better. What if I'd rather have a conversation and human interaction?\nI can't upvote this as I agree depending on the topic.", ">\n\nGoogle en passant" ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous.", ">\n\nI once said something similar on a thread and was downvoted into oblivion. Google isn't going to relay the human part of certain things. The nuance of it all.\nThere are times when \"google it\" works as a response, but there are times where input from people is the better. What if I'd rather have a conversation and human interaction?\nI can't upvote this as I agree depending on the topic.", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nI only say Google it if a person has never heard of a commonly understood concept or word definition." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous.", ">\n\nI once said something similar on a thread and was downvoted into oblivion. Google isn't going to relay the human part of certain things. The nuance of it all.\nThere are times when \"google it\" works as a response, but there are times where input from people is the better. What if I'd rather have a conversation and human interaction?\nI can't upvote this as I agree depending on the topic.", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nI only say Google it if a person has never heard of a commonly understood concept or word definition.", ">\n\nI don’t use it as much to prove a point, but rather to show how blatantly ignorant people are that they can’t even access common knowledge, so googling it is the best option." ]

[ "who has hit the most home runs in the World Series?", ">\n\nJust Yahoo! it, man.", ">\n\nI'm going to ask jeeves!", ">\n\nInfoseek it.", ">\n\nFunny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol", ">\n\nI've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle.", ">\n\nschools really done screwed up by calling it \"research\" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it.", ">\n\nWhat's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia?", ">\n\nThe biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change.", ">\n\nRight, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research.", ">\n\nnot so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone.", ">\n\nI think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. \nI understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.\nHaving said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not.", ">\n\nI love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.\nPeople sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the \"I told you so\" afterwards.\nSome people will go on to a tirade about me not \"trusting them\". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses.", ">\n\nIf you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help.", ">\n\nStupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow?", ">\n\nwhat would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd!", ">\n\nCan you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity", ">\n\nHave you ever seen a blue waffle?", ">\n\nI don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.\nEdit: Ayo wtf?", ">\n\nThat's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party", ">\n\nIt depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.", ">\n\n\nbut sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.\n\nyou mean the \"just asking questions\" side", ">\n\n\"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer\"", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nHoly heck", ">\n\n“Source?”\n“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”\n“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands”", ">\n\nEither that or,\n*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*\n\"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article.\"", ">\n\nI'd change this to \"google is your friend\"", ">\n\nOr \"let me google that for you\".", ">\n\nPrecisely", ">\n\nCuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google", ">\n\nBased on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about.", ">\n\nbro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this\nOr I can be an asshole and type like you.", ">\n\nIf you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you. Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole.", ">\n\nusing correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree\nbut they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”\nso all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar \nposts on reddit? hell naw nun dat", ">\n\nI don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated. Unless you typed it that way to make a point…?", ">\n\nno i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha \ni also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh", ">\n\nWhy would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it.", ">\n\n“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media.", ">\n\nNot googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol.", ">\n\nThat's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself. \nThe way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself.", ">\n\n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾", ">\n\nAdditionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious.", ">\n\nEntitled, too?", ">\n\nFor sure.", ">\n\nThere is a practical difference in context between \"I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case\" and \"stop wasting my time\".\n\"Google It\" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.\nUnfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics...", ">\n\nBut also there are people who just think \"source?\" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know.", ">\n\nI only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog.", ">\n\nI say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant", ">\n\nMost of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong.", ">\n\nI play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. \nThere's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. \nThere's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. \nThat's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to.", ">\n\nDepends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not.", ">\n\nIt’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE", ">\n\nI get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking.", ">\n\nNah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have.", ">\n\nIt has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.\nIt's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step.", ">\n\nwhen people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't.", ">\n\nI was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question.", ">\n\nI agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link.", ">\n\nI put these people in the same category as \"Read a book\" or \"wake up, sheeple\". \nIt's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked.", ">\n\nTell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA \n“SHEEPLE”\n🙄", ">\n\nThey were screaming it.", ">\n\nThese people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read.", ">\n\nI mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...\nBut whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo.", ">\n\nIf they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place", ">\n\nFirst day as a human? 🤨", ">\n\nI agree on some points tho I doubt it will matter for most arguments", ">\n\nSemi agree, sometimes my wife does this when we’re having a discussion and she’s explaining something or talking about something and I ask a question. I find its usually not intended to be mean or rude but it’s how society is now days…. No more debates or discussions just - here’s the fact talk about other stuff now", ">\n\nOh bröther", ">\n\nDepends on the context, if you're looking for statistics/facts which can't reasonably be memorised, then \"google it\" is fine.\nLike, \"ermehgerd my favourite band is better than your favourite band, my band has a bigger fanbase\"\nTerrible example but you get the point\nIf it's something political, then you should KNOW because these are ideas that you agree with and stand behind! In this case saying \"google it\" makes you look like you've just succumbed to herd mentality.\nIf you disagree with me, f*** you, go google it!", ">\n\nYou're right on with this, if you bring up a point, IT IS NOT UP TO THE OPPOSITION TO PROVIDE PROOF, google will feed you what they think someone like you would want to see, so they keep their traffic up. someone Telling an opposing opinion to google their own side of an argument, are usually doing so because their opinion is based off of feelings instead of logic", ">\n\nSometimes the case but it’s not my responsibility to prove something factual to someone who lives in a land of bullshit and « alternative facts ». The information is out there, not my fault people cherry pick « facts » to build their worldview. It’s usually in response to saying something completely factual that I have knowledge about when someone replies « prove it », like I don’t have time for that shit, if you want to be informed it’s on you lol", ">\n\ngOoGlE iS fReE", ">\n\nIt’s not our job to provide evidence to people who are refusing to seek out or accept the same evidence.", ">\n\nWhat would be an example? I hear this sentiment a lot, and I guess it's just a matter of what types of things you are searching, and if they are all wide open to interpretation.\nBut for the things I search, whether it's google, yahoo or bing, I pretty much get the same results. One of them condenses the results and gives message like they've hidden 120 other redundant results.\nBut I cant find it in my own personal searches. \nCan someone give a specific example of this happening with google compare to other search engines?", ">\n\nI feel like people who say google it don't know the answer either but instead of being quiet they just want to be assholes", ">\n\nOk but what if someone says something easily proven not true with a quick google search? Like why should I provide evidence when google will compile it for you?", ">\n\nI mean it’s a very direct approach to “I’m only going to google this, so why don’t you use google like everyone else”", ">\n\nIt largely depends on the question being asked and just saying \"Google it\" does come off as rude, but I've found people like to ask questions that are so simple that it really does make more sense to look it up that bother a person about it who wouldn't know it right away. Heck, THEY might Google it to provide you the answer lol", ">\n\nI tell people to Google it so they can have the source up as well, because it's foolish to trust all the words of the one you're debating with. It allows them to pull up the point I'm making so I'm not just talking out of my ass for it", ">\n\nTrue", ">\n\nMostly.\nHowever, if I'm having an argument with someone, say about the flat Earth, and they ask \"where is the proof that the Earth is not flat\" I may tell them to google it. Because it's pointless actually doing it and showing them the errors of yourself; it's already out there and they could easily know better already. The fact that they don't shows they're probably not going to believe you anyway...in which case let them google it and be convinced or not. Pointless arguing with someone who refuses to listen.\nBut that's only for really well known or obvious things. For others, yes you should google it yourself and give them the link. After all you might learn you are wrong in the process!", ">\n\nPeople really need to get taught how to google stuff, it’ll give almost any answer they want. I’d google it for them", ">\n\nIn 1979 Xerox got mad at NY times for saying \"xerox it\" saying it's capital \"X\" and no \"ed\". \nIf you don't believe me \"Google it\"", ">\n\nI agree, this can be a dismissive way to end an exchange with someone you disagree with.\nBut I also accept that we are increasingly in a digital world.\nMy point being: I'm striving to live in the world we LIVE IN more and more every day, rather than trying to live in the world I WISH we lived in.\nThis distinction may account for why some folks are so sad about new things, when surely they could adapt with the same amount of energy (or less) they expend griping about things.\nWe live in a digital world, and the younger folks are not going to apologize to us old heads for living now, nor should they.", ">\n\nI only did this when I was driving and the person don't know what I was talking about or refuse to believe me, then, I said that. Because I am just too busy.", ">\n\nI used to say google it, when I was tired of typing and such, google it is still a good option, maybe just add the question you can ask google. \nIt’s not condescending or ignorant if you ask me at all, I think it’s just the way you’re taking it. The only thing you’re saying is that “I’m too lazy to do the research this person previously did and I feel entitled to the point where they need to show me everything instead of just doing it myself”", ">\n\nNo it’s actually the best way to teach people because informed ignorance is a thing.", ">\n\nNo. It's an appropriate response when a troll won't listen to your argument nor step back and investigate information. Said troll often is resorting to the troll tactic of \"show me proof\" as a counter argument, placing a burden on the other person to dig into reference material only for that information to be summarily ignored by said troll anyways.", ">\n\nI know many people who are very quick to resort to googling, when I much prefer a conversation and to see what we each really know. \nSome seem to get a rush out of being right, but little do they realize they don't know shit, they just Google everything.", ">\n\nYeah I know that's why I prefer this", ">\n\nWhen you are in an argument and you made something up and tell them to “google it” is ultimate troll move.\nHow many times has someone actually googled it?", ">\n\n\ncondescending\n\nSure?\n\nignorant\n\nI know words, and I WILL use them!", ">\n\nAgreed, and would add that sometimes it's really hard to find the right results on Google if you don't know enough about the topic to create effective searches or sort through thousands of results to find a single piece of information", ">\n\nWe have the collective knowledge of the world at our fingertips. When one is saying something remarkably ignorant that a cursory search would answer their inquiry, it is appropriate.", ">\n\nNo amount of factual evidence will change an opinion derived at without factual evidence... \nSo why waste time citing facts they won't believe. I would say they likely ignore folks that say anything they don't agree with. Putting the burden on them to give proof that you will call fake, biased, or just totally ignore is disingenuous.", ">\n\nI once said something similar on a thread and was downvoted into oblivion. Google isn't going to relay the human part of certain things. The nuance of it all.\nThere are times when \"google it\" works as a response, but there are times where input from people is the better. What if I'd rather have a conversation and human interaction?\nI can't upvote this as I agree depending on the topic.", ">\n\nGoogle en passant", ">\n\nI only say Google it if a person has never heard of a commonly understood concept or word definition.", ">\n\nI don’t use it as much to prove a point, but rather to show how blatantly ignorant people are that they can’t even access common knowledge, so googling it is the best option.", ">\n\nI say Google it because most times, that question is answered by a simple search. \nOr use the search engine bar? \nTry looking for an answer before you ask the same question l, over and over again, that someone already asked." ]