A Nerd Confession:

Recently I was at my sister’s apartment hanging out with her and her friends. All of which I basically get along with, as they are very nice to me, but they are not entirely what I would call “my people.”

So, while hanging out, having a few cocktails with these ladies I guess we were all sufficiently bored enough because conversation soon turned to the question: what is the highest mountain in the whole wide world and where it was located? While I kept insisting it was Mount Everest in Tibet/Nepal – my sister’s friends were not sold.

So it was decided to look it up online.

Friend 1: “Yeah, go to Yahoo!”

Friend 2: “Yeah, look it up on Yahoo!”

Me: “Yahoo!? Yahoo! sucks. Who the hell still uses Yahoo! anymore? Use Google, Terri.”

Friends in unison: “What’s a Google?”

My jaw dropped, y’all.

Me: “Google! People, Google! It’s only like, the best search engine on the planet. If Google can’t find it, it doesn’t exist!”

Friend 1 shrugs and says: “eh, I like Yahoo.*”

All right, so I know I am One Big Fucking Nerd for like, being so incredulous about that, but c’mon! Who still asks “What’s a Google?” (besides like, my mother).

How do people live without the Google toolbar?!

I thought everybody knew about the Google toolbar!

Who hasn’t Googled an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend? Who hasn’t Googled themselves for that matter!

At any rate, while I am in the middle of my Big Nerd Confession I may as well let you know I recently read an interview with one of the founders of Google in Spin magazine. He and the interviewer were at Google HQ and from what I gathered (and I could be wrong) I guess when you walk in there is some big huge screen that flashes in real time what it is people are searching for.

So, say I was to do a search for Google’s #1 Hot Sexy Bitch, then the words: Google’s #1 Hot Sexy Bitch would pop up on this big screen in the Google offices for all the Google-workers to see.

So what did I search over 2 dozen times in about 30 seconds today?

ann-frank: rockstar! Hello Google HQ!

Like I said ann-frank: One. Big. Fucking. Nerd.

If you search that, I am pretty sure my name’ll pop up.

Clearly, things are slowing down at work.

* yes, I am aware yahoo is now "powered by Google, but it's not the same. You know it's not!