It used to be that in order to look something up, someone would have to actually go look in a book, public records, telephone or other various old world means for finding information they sought to find. Now though, at the touch of our fingertips, we have search engines such as Google and Bing.
Just think about that; how amazing it is to just be able to search for anything on a screen, and travel all around the world, with a wealth of information and the ability to gain vast amounts of knowledge just sitting at a computer.
People in the past would have hardly been able to imagine something such as this, since such a marvel would require great technology. If such a marvel were to exist, surely it would be used to be further man's knowledge and betterment, and advance society as a whole, right?
Well, maybe not to the extent of what our predecessors would have expected, but search engines are used quite a bit for knowledge and education, but also a great deal for entertainment; probably mostly.
Google seems to be the most used search engine, with Bing as sort of an internet joke; not saying it's bad, for I haven't used it very much, but Google is definitely king and will remain so for a very long time it seems.
Whatever the future holds for searching for things, I don't know, but I'm not sure how it can get much more sophisticated than Google, unless it's installed in the human brain itself.
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