The day a librarian showed me how to search without Google
I was at the public library in Des Moines about 5 years ago, looking up some old newspaper articles. This older librarian, must have been in her 70s, came over and asked what I was doing. I told her I was just typing keywords into the library's website. She laughed a little and then sat down at the computer next to me. She pulled up this thing called a boolean search guide and showed me how to use AND, OR, and quotation marks properly. I had been using Google my whole life just typing full sentences into the search bar like it was a person. After she showed me that, I started getting way better results. I still do it today for my job and for finding old forum posts. Has anyone else had a random person teach them a trick that changed how they do a basic thing? I wish I remembered her name.