Well, I wasn't sure if this should go in here or in check it out. I don't have a link...sooo...
Anyhow, apparently Google was down this morning. I found out when my mom called me from work.
Mom: "Daughter! I can't GOOGLE!"
Me: "Um, what mom?"
Mom: "Google's dooooown! What do I do? I can't--I can't get my gmail and I need to search for something."
Me: "Mom...there's this thing...called Yahoo...You can search with that too."
Mom: "Oh! I forgot other search engines existed. *hand over phone* Guys, look it up on Yahoo!"
Man in the room: "It's not the same! Why the hell isn't google working?! It's google! It shouldn't be allowed to go down!"
Me:
Goodness, if a room full of Navy/Marine brass couldn't figure that out... My mother is actually very smart, but she can stress herself out. I didn't know she had a gmail account either. Didn't think she could use it for work; she has a spiffy .mil e-mail account for that.
It goes to show how many people rely on google. I was annoyed by the outage too, since my home page is my igoogle. And every damn time I needed to search for something, I would type in google.com and nothing would happen.
Anyhow, apparently Google was down this morning. I found out when my mom called me from work.
Mom: "Daughter! I can't GOOGLE!"
Me: "Um, what mom?"
Mom: "Google's dooooown! What do I do? I can't--I can't get my gmail and I need to search for something."
Me: "Mom...there's this thing...called Yahoo...You can search with that too."
Mom: "Oh! I forgot other search engines existed. *hand over phone* Guys, look it up on Yahoo!"
Man in the room: "It's not the same! Why the hell isn't google working?! It's google! It shouldn't be allowed to go down!"
Me:
Goodness, if a room full of Navy/Marine brass couldn't figure that out... My mother is actually very smart, but she can stress herself out. I didn't know she had a gmail account either. Didn't think she could use it for work; she has a spiffy .mil e-mail account for that.
It goes to show how many people rely on google. I was annoyed by the outage too, since my home page is my igoogle. And every damn time I needed to search for something, I would type in google.com and nothing would happen.
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