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!