The boy who got angry with Google

Something amused me yesterday. A teacher was telling me about a 7 year old boy in his class who got angry with Google.

The teacher was sitting with the boy helping him research something for the project the boy was working on, and they
were using Google to search but having trouble finding the exact information they needed.

So the boy said “type in we are getting angry”

“No we can’t do that,” said the teacher. “Google doesn’t work that way. We’ll just have to change the search words a little and we’ll find what we need.”

This made the boy shout. “now you have to type in we are getting VERY angry.”

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Telling me the story, the teacher hypothesized that it showed how the world was changing and the kids who had grown up with computers related to them almost as they would to another person. And that they were so used to using Google that they believed it had emotions and would respond to anger or laughing.

As for me I just think it was a badly behaved little boy :)

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2 thoughts on “The boy who got angry with Google

  1. It boggles my mind that these kids grew up with video games, computers, cell phones and can’t imagine a life without it. But to me I still remember when Atari came out!

  2. Thats pretty funny remembering when Atari came out, I was just reflecting about my first computer. I used to hook it up with allegator clips and rca plugs to a cassette tape recorder and a portable t.v. And then I played my rendition of pong…

    I also had the full 15 volume Encyclopedia Britanica for research…now I have a phone and google…go figure.

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