A Good Advert For Why You Should Use Ab ...

[sunny-dave]

... rather than trusting google.

We do occasionally see replies along the lines of "You could have googled that in half the time it took to ask your question on AB" - these comments are strongly deprecated by our esteemed Gnomic Editors, but some people just can't help themselves it seems.

If the OP in the link below had trusted google, he/she would quite likely have got the same (wrong) answer as given by Baldric here - no fault of Balders, just a carp definition on the usually reliable Dictionary.com.

Fortunately the AB cavalry arrived to say "I Think Not" and give the correct answer - a very good advert for AnswerBank I think?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1568279.html

[Patsy33]

All a bit confusing. Although, all said in good spirit..

[Zacs-Master]

And the exception:
The purists on all sides retreat further and further from the middle and become increasingly "more correct than correct", all others become insufferable enemies.

[Zacs-Master]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1568107.html

[Mamyalynne]

I do a lot of quizzing and that entails a lot of searching, it can be infuriating to get differing answers dependant on your reference point.

Even more so when you have to second guess which source the setter used.

AB is great for at the very least making you look a little deeper into things.

[Mamyalynne]

Actually Zacs the link you gave raises another point - how often do you say 'Oh I've wondered that too' or 'I never even thought how that worked'.

Either way a source of inspiration.

[Barmaid]

I havent read the link, but I am inclined to think that google for legal questions is abhorrent. If I had a quid for every client who had said, "well the internet says"........

It cant be that different for other questions.

The trouble is, on the www, every many and his dog can be "experts", put it on the internet and there it is, gospel.

Yours, Colin, the Trucker from Bermondsey.

[Mamyalynne]

That Colin's no better than he ought to be, tsk.

[sunny-dave]

Well hello, Colin - have you moved house?

Last time we spoke you were surfing from Goole whilst eating an Egg McMuffin in your string vest ...

[jim360]

As it happens, I found AB through google. So...

[ummmm]

Same here, Jim...

[Sqad]

I agree with Barmaid....I cringe when i see a link to a medical website.
First of all, the website is almost always based on what the OP has "headlined" the question and that usually has nothing to do with the problem.
Once the assumed website is opened it is usually so confusing that it would take an Aber with a medical degree and almost certainly a post graduate medical degree to be in a position to understand it.
Then they (the ABer) will be advised to "scroll down" and pick your most likely diagnosis, which may or may not be relevant to the question.
It drives me mad.
However on the positive side, if an ABer really does know as to the accuracy of the diagnosis, then Google may be invaluable,however in my opinion and experience that is rarely the case.

[HansUrbancka]

Living in Wales as I do, it has always been my understanding that the correct spelling of 'Whisky' is ...'Whisgi'. In fact I have even been led to believe that, before Scotland or Ireland, the spirit was first distilled in Wales by Bardic Brewers in Brecon..whoever they were. Perhaps they were forerunners to the Penderyn Distillery which is situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Hans.

Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

Oops... looks as if I have had one too many.....Hans.

[Old_Geezer]

One doesn't Google such a question, one pops down to the local offie and treats oneself to a few bottles of each, and reads the labels (before indulging).