Spend five or ten minutes with a search engine before you ask your question.

it's a shame we can't nominate for best question sometimes :)

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Even then....

I know a college professor who received a paper which was full of bizarre statements. It turns out the student had done a google search and based the paper on one particular web page, which was for a sixth-grader's science fair project!

Spent half an hour last night trying to ascertain the answer to what i thought was a relatively simple question requiring names; dates; etc. and neither Google nor Yahoo gave me the information i was after even after re-wording the question half a dozen times !

What's the point of asking you that then, if we have all the info we need while going through our search engine?

This is similar world's not yahoo answers.

Spend 5 to 10 min. Reading the about and guidelines section.

Good luck on that!

No

And use your time with the search engine to look up your question... not porn...

Yes , you will get vastly different results, depending on where you live geographically

What if I want to know someone's opinion on a subject

Exactly !! Most if the time they do not even need a search engine. They just want to post..lol

But it was "wam bam, thank you ma'am" after 25 seconds.

But I'd rather hear YOUR answer!! :D

Your ancient wisdom (from 2017!) still rings true!

This mindset is why this site is dying now 😌🤷🏼‍♀️

Wait... You mean SW isn't Google?

what's the best search engine?

Now where's the fun in that?

This pinned, 6 yr old post is ever relevant!

I have learned the hard way

Omg yes! Especially on quora!!!

I have a question for you

I say THANK YOU...

ok if u wish

But then your question is kinda pointless to ask in a social way ?

So true

Totally agree, but people are so lazy. It's the way they have been trained by technology and technology companies over the last 20-30 years. In a few generations we'll all just be blobs of protoplasm with wireless connections to the mainframe.

Spend five or ten seconds with your search brain before you answer this question.

Fun fact: one of the rules on Yahoo! Answers was that we weren't allowed to answer questions with "Google it," no matter how bloody obvious it should have been.

suck that ice

Okay, but how do I find a search engine?

I remember on Yahoo! Answers, the stupidity got so bad, they had to implement a ban on answering with "Google it!"