Sadje of “Keep It Alive” is the host of the Sunday Poser and this week’s question is about the ubiquitous Mr Google.

How many times a day/ week you Google stuff?

I know that Google does not like us to use their name as a verb but too bad. I’m going to. I probably Google something several times a week, probably at least once a day.

What sort of things? Well I often Google names and addresses of tradespeople we might need to use. We have a lot of jobs we want done around the house and as we don’t really know a lot of people the best way to find out is to do an internet search for the service we need.

We also use Google for searching for travel information. I recently went down to Hobart for a long weekend and used it to search for somewhere to stay, and once I got there for directions and places to eat. Sometimes I use it to help Naomi research for her upcoming holiday looking up visa requirements, rail passes and so on.

Then of course there are those times when you get into a conversation with someone and something comes up that nobody knows the answer to. In pre-internet days this could drive me crazy, asking people and trying to remember. Once, at work, Naomi and I were trying to remember the name of a particular film and ended up asking nearly everyone in our workplace before someone remembered. Now we can just google it.

Finally, I Google a lot of things when I am writing blog posts. I do it to check facts, to find information and sometimes images. I do a lot of Googling to identify dolls when I’m writing posts for that blog.

Of course there are other search engines, and I think that we often use Google as a generic term, probably why they don’t like it. Whichever one you use they can help you find anything.