Because that’s how I stumbled upon your site here.

I thought some weeks ago, how cool it’d be to quickly hack together something similar to Google Instant.
Search for a video and in order to speed up the BROWSING (lol) process, preload the “nearest neighbors” in the search results.

So I typed “Youtube AND Google Instant AND similar -I know Steve Jobs already invented it” into Google (gotta love operators ) and landed here, through you YInstant site.

So we are complaining about how people are too lazy to learn what drives their technology or how it works, or what it is even called.

Wait ’til the “semantic web” and you will see the average IQ drop by 50%.

“Like, you know Google, like gimme that thing that like plays videos and where I can like find LOL Cats and stuff”.

All working via voice, because nobody will be able to type or read text by then. ha ha

“Technocracy leads to Idiocracy”

“To browse through” means exactly that. SEARCHING for websites. You type in an address and the WEB BROWSER connects to a system which looks up the IP address for said name. So a WEB BROWSER lets you connect to a location specified by numbers, by using words/other characters (IP vs. Domain Name). And an invisible back-end system does the translation.

The “illiterate” users in this video are interpreting the NAME of the device correctly. The MEANING “tech savvy people” chosen for the device is therefore correct, but WE interpret the function of it in a wrong way.

Now what is a “search engine”. An engine “powers” something. A search engine is a specific device for browsing the content of nodes in said “web”.

So not only can you use a “search engine” to find DOMAIN NAMES of sites, but also the content hosted by said sites.

And while a DOMAIN NAME is individual (unless it is categorized by a specific “container”, e.g. .com/.edu/.de/.info/.tv), content with the same name can be found through it, independent of the site’s name (for example, searching for images called “this is me” will let you find millions of images with the same name, but coming from 1 or more sites).

So a WEB BROWSER searches for a SPECIFIC “phone number” of a specific “Average Joe”, while a SEARCH ENGINE searches for INDIVIDUAL “Average Joes” (and their content, information about them), independent of their “phone number”, or who “hosts” said information about them.

This is similar to the word “umbrella”, derived from “para sol” (in Polish for example, it is called “parasol”). It is supposed to protect you from RAIN though, not the SUN.

So the words we use can be misleading.

I guess it just makes people who DO understand their computers (like us) that much more powerful and productive.

Conversely, it makes people who DON’T understand their computers that much more dependent, unproductive, and weak (which isn’t very good for society as a whole). If you don’t understand your technology very well AND you are unwilling to learn, then you can’t make your technology do what you want, and you’ll be helpless and easily taken advantage of (think online phishing scams, fake “you have a virus!” pop-ups, and the like, which harm so many people every day).

To some extent, you’re right. It’s awesome that my 5-year old cousin can use the computer to surf the Internet and play games, without help from anyone. Yet, it doesn’t mean that people should just STOP learning about the most important tool (other than their brain) that they will ever use during their lifetime. It’s something that’s really worth learning.

By the way, it’s great to hear from you. We haven’t talked in so long! I still remember how all of us used to play two-touch football on the field outside Mr. Harrington’s room. And I think in 4th grade you and I flushed an army man down the toilet and made it overflow! Those are good memories.