A guy responded to my Craigslist ad with "mam" and then went on a hate rant against broke old people. I emailed back, "It's spelled ma'am" and he sent more paragraphs of wrath plus a screen shot of "Mam" that per Google is "informal dialect" for woman.
Then he wrote "see, Google says it's spelled m-a-m."
I live in a world where illiterate people can use a phone and do a one minute Google search and think now they know it all. They don't even know what they don't know. I do. I took down the Craigslist ad. I'll find a better way to find a place to live in L.A... if I even still want one...
A few weeks earlier for work I had to look up the names of Nazis prosecuted at Nuremberg and Google fed me:
Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Alfred Rosenberg was a WW2 Jewish-American Air Force hero who piloted bombers and dog-fought the Germans. Then the well known and renowned "Rosie" went on to be a PROSECUTOR at the Nuremberg trials.
Google is often not right. Yet we rely on it so much, Google will definitely make humans dumber than they already are.
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Posted by City of Angels Blog
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-ke
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