This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
t’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds… If bookstores fall, America will be inundated with a wandering snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane estoterica.”
John Hodgman, The Daily Show, on the closing of Borders bookstore chain.