a good domain

breakfast thinkingDoing my morning scan of my Mastodon timeline, I saw a post by someone saying that we should try to make the fact you're going to google something a Bad Thing now. Turn the verb of googling into an insult. Example: "That's so unbelievable it sounds like you googled it." Apparently, the kids are not saying to google something as a verb any more anyway. They just say 'I'm gonna search that up'. It's naturally falling out of favour to be specifically 'Googling' things as actually Googling things with Google gets more ever more useless. (NB: This is only gleaned from what I have read – I haven't actually used google to search with myself for a good few years now.) Then, about three seconds later – because that's the kind of tab-skipping my morning involves – I read a blog post extolling the virtues of various small web blog directories in my RSS feed. I'm not surprised. There is still a lot of very good human web to be enjoyed, bubbling away merrily below the behemoths.…