[ArekDymalski]

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.

[vova_hn2]

> 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]

“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.

[dahart]

My kids made fun of me yesterday when they saw me using a question mark in a search query.