Google It, You Big Dummy!
“Hey pop, what’s this old piece of junk?”, exclaims LaMont.
If Fred Sanford was alive during today’s Internet Revolution, he would have inevitably told LaMont to just “Google It, You Big Dummy!”. There are so many times throughout the week where I’m about to ask someone, “What was that?”, then I realize all I have to do is Google it. With the advent of the smart phones, the ability to look up trivial information is just seconds away.
However, the next question floating to the top is, “How valid is the source you are referencing online?” The fact is just because the information is online doesn’t mean it’s accurate. In Web 3.0, the information overload of the Internet will mean the increasing need of certified online content. Sites like Snopes and Wikipedia are monitored by users, but here tips to verify information on your own.
3 rules when verifying online facts:
- Check the site references
- Reference more than one site
- Surf creditable sources like cnn
Take the Sanford and Son, Who you calling dummy? quiz
2 Responses to “Google It, You Big Dummy!”
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MikeK on October 30th, 2009
The best part is that those of us that grew up watching Sanford and Sons can actually hear Red Foxx saying that! Since it’s a Google world, I Google’d Red Foxx to see when he died, and discovered that his real name was John Elroy Sanford. Seriously!
Marc Majers on November 4th, 2009
The Google world is exciting but at the same time is strange because now conversations can start and end with heads down looking at a on mobile device.