Ad it Up: Great Ideas a Little Too Late
Remember back in the '80s when the ability to quickly search for answers to all of the random questions that pop into your head was nothing more than a pipe dream? Long before the Google Maps let you see your house from space; before you even thought of quoting Wikipedia in your research paper; even before you could just pick up your cell and phone a friend -- when all you had to rely on was your wits and your Almanac? Those were the days. And out of those days came a plethora of new ideas on how to make our lives a lot easier by getting us information a lot faster. To this day, we continue to be brought better and better ways to access information. Every once in a while, though, we get some inventions that are a little slow to the game. Here is one such example:
Basically, here's how KGB works:
If you had asked me in 1997 whether I thought it a good idea to have a team of "special agents" primed and waiting for me to ask them stupid stuff, like who won a baseball game or what color Rainbow Brite's horse was, I would have said "hell yes!"
...but then a year later the single greatest invention in the age of technology would come out -- Google. Here's how Google searches work:
Sound familiar? Hmmm...maybe it's just me, but texting in your questions to a bunch of researchers who are probably Googling the answers on their iPhones seems a bit redundant in 2009. Great idea KGB, bad timing.
Basically, here's how KGB works:
- Think about something you'd like to learn about
- Come up with a question
- Create a text with your question for KGB
- Hit "send"
- KGB will perform an internet search for the answer
- Either an automated key word search or a live human researcher will find relevant web pages
- You will get a text back with the answer
If you had asked me in 1997 whether I thought it a good idea to have a team of "special agents" primed and waiting for me to ask them stupid stuff, like who won a baseball game or what color Rainbow Brite's horse was, I would have said "hell yes!"
...but then a year later the single greatest invention in the age of technology would come out -- Google. Here's how Google searches work:
- Think about something you want to know more about
- Come up with a question
- Type your question or some of the key words into your Google search engine
- Hit "enter"
- Google will perform a key word search
- Google will provide you will potential web pages that will answer your question
- Click on the web page you want to look at
- Read and discover your answer
Sound familiar? Hmmm...maybe it's just me, but texting in your questions to a bunch of researchers who are probably Googling the answers on their iPhones seems a bit redundant in 2009. Great idea KGB, bad timing.
This entry was posted by Lady Amy, on
Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
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Well if companies like KGb can make money out of those who lack the initative to use Google, then fair play to them.
Reminds me of that "Let me google that for you" which was a lot of fun and useful to teach your friends not to bother you with silly questions
Haha. Good call. I don't think I ever saw "Let me google that for you" but I just googled it and it's awesome.
Haha, this reminds me like those bosses that have their secretaries print out their email.
Also, notice at the library there are more people sitting at the computers than actually rummaging through the books. (We go just to check out DVDs)
Amy, I think you are overlooking the laziness of the American culture. Why the heck would I open up my browsing app on my data phone when someone else can do it for me?
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