"John, a 25-year-old from Wigan, has been retweeted more than 11,000 times. He told the BBC he and his boyfriend do not have a clothes dryer so they go to Ashworth’s house for their laundry. “I asked my nan why she used ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and it seemed she thinks that there is someone – a physical person – at Google’s headquarters who looks after the searches. “She thought that by being polite and using her manners, the search would be quicker,” he said... Google UK thanked “Ben’s Nan” saying: “In a world of billions of searches, yours made us smile. “Oh, and it’s 1998,” it added. “Thank YOU”."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label Google praises 86-year old UK woman for polite Internet searches. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Manners maketh Nan: Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches; Guardian, 6/16/16
Oliver Holmes, Guardian; Manners maketh Nan: Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches:
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