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Ask HN: Ever "think in Google"?

4 points by jgroch ↗ HN
Do you ever find yourself thinking in keywords when away from the internet, as if Google were an extension of you? I think I did too much research online over the past few days and I noticed Google is reshaping the way I think. Ten years ago if I heard someone interject a few disjoint words, I wouldn't think much of it. Now I wonder if they're "thinking in Google", too.

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seasoup
Yes.. that is, yes you did too much research online over the past few days!
jgroch
I hope that's it. I don't want to become any more incoherent than I already am.
TallGuyShort
Recently I've woken up thinking in C. I'll say hi to my wife, and immediately check to make sure that in my mind, there were parentheses and a semicolon after I said 'hi'.
jgroch
That too. In various programming languages, Lisp a few weeks ago. Luckily not the parenthesis part for me, though.

(edit - curiously it's most often when waking up also)

mcav
I've tried to ⌃⌘D a word in a real book before.

Also caught myself searching for ⌘Z after spilling something.

iterationx
I once thought to myself that I needed to set the coffee cup to zero, then I realized that I actually meant wash it.
mcav
If only it were all that easy.

Though I suppose a little work is better than the coffee cup exploding because we forgot to free some memory for the toaster.

rwolf
While focusing on a problem, my google-fu always seems to diffuse. An example from today:

ie7 css background-image second try load page

Unsurprisingly, this did not return the results I was looking for.