Grandma thinks Google is a person, begins search requests with ‘please’

Posted by | June 16, 2016 21:00 | Filed under: Pot Luck

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She is a very nice, polite woman.

May Ashworth, an 86-year-old British woman, believed that search queries at Google were handled by human staffers. And so, she did what any considerate human being would do — bolstered her Internet questions with “please” and “thank you.”

Ashworth’s grandson Ben John was so charmed by the query he found on her computer last week (“please translate these roman numerals mcmxcviii thank you”) that he tweeted out a photo, which went viral.

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12 responses to Grandma thinks Google is a person, begins search requests with ‘please’

  1. lolana June 16th, 2016 at 21:09

    I LOVE this

  2. Mike June 16th, 2016 at 21:12

    I usually start mine with “WTF is ….

    • Suzanne McFly June 16th, 2016 at 21:18

      Well you are not a cute grandma lol.

    • whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 21:23

      damnit, i can’t get this stupid smile off my face. that’s too funny.

      • amersham46 June 16th, 2016 at 21:30

        Ran an internet cafe in the late 90s, older tourists (who grandchildren had set up emails for them) inquired about postage , so we had sheets of stamps printed with Bill Gates pic on them

        • whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 22:26

          get out! lol

          • amersham46 June 16th, 2016 at 22:28

            really , had a lot of older cruise ship customers thru , and the net was something new and strange

    • DogsRgoodpeople June 16th, 2016 at 21:55

      funny !

    • whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 22:30

      i just showed this to my son. the grandsons tweet and yours and he died laughing.

      • Mike June 17th, 2016 at 09:32

        Only because it’s true and you guys do it too ….!

  3. Mensa Member June 16th, 2016 at 23:56

    A person? That’s hilarious!

    Everybody knows The Internet is a program on your hard drive.

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