While really useful now, I'm afraid that in the long run it might accelerate the language atrophy that is already happening. I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google and write SMS with capital letters, commas and periods.

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vova_hn2 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google

I think that, in the early days of internet search, entering full questions actually produced worse results than just a bunch of keywords or short phrases.

So it was a sign of a "noob", rather than a mark of sophistication and literacy.

	▲	jagged-chisel 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Sophistication and literacy” are orthogonal to the peculiarities of a black box search engine. Those literate sophisticates would still be noobs at getting something useful from Google.