YakShaving

Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.

I wish I could Google anything, too

July 16, 2012

Obviously, this is just a joke. But, people really want this. Why wouldn’t they? The premise of a search “engine” needs to change from one that digs through a number of crawled results into one that provides people with sufficient contextual information when and how they want it.

Respond to me on Twitter: @AshBhoopathy or follow the discussion on HN.


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