While really useful now, I'm afraid that in the long run it might accelerate the language atrophy that is already happening. I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google and write SMS with capital letters, commas and periods.
While really useful now, I'm afraid that in the long run it might accelerate the language atrophy that is already happening. I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google and write SMS with capital letters, commas and periods.
> I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google
I think that, in the early days of internet search, entering full questions actually produced worse results than just a bunch of keywords or short phrases.
So it was a sign of a "noob", rather than a mark of sophistication and literacy.
“Sophistication and literacy” are orthogonal to the peculiarities of a black box search engine.
Those literate sophisticates would still be noobs at getting something useful from Google.
My kids made fun of me yesterday when they saw me using a question mark in a search query.