The Things You Can Find On Google
Filed under: Ask, Error Messages, Google, Scams, Search Engines
As I twittered around this morning, I came across this great article.
In it, it explained a couple of things that reminded me of information that I’d garnered recently from simple Google searches. About two weeks ago, my father called with grim news. That some company had called him looking for me and that I was being sued for some sort of fraud action. They gave him a number for me to call and a case number. So, in a somewhat panic I called the number and in the middle of the conversation my husband had an epiphany to do a Google search of the phone number. Luckily before I gave away any sensitive information Joel had pulled up pages and pages of scam information about this company. What a sigh of relief, but can you imagine all the people who didn’t have that information? It’s scary to think about.
The other more trivial piece of information I garnered recently from Google was about an error message that I kept receiving whenever I’d type in certain addresses into my address bar. So, I copied and pasted the error message and voila, there were the instructions on how to fix it. It was something wrong with an “Ask” toolbar that I’d recently installed as part of another software package. Within five minutes I had the toolbar uninstalled from my computer and I was back to happy surfing.
Moral of this story. Whenever you have any sort of information that you need answers to, Google it. I bet you find an answer right away.
