Googlediving

"Googlediving"? I was introduced to this term by a prisoner who sometimes visits this wholesome, everyday blog. He goes by the name of "Marcellous" and is currently serving a fifteen year sentence for reasons I am not allowed to disclose. He has also requested that I should not state the name or location of the high security prison facility in which he is currently incarcerated. His internet use is frequently constrained by prison staff and of course his real name is not "Marcellous". It's Knuckles O'Haggerty.

Anyway, all of that is by the by. I just wanted to pick up on the term "googlediving". I think it is a useful term and one that everyone who has ever been on the internet can relate to. "Googlediving" has become a feature of everyday life in the western world.

Have you noticed how in the past couple of years, many of one's questions to Google are answered very quickly in the form of an "A.I.  Overview" that presumably makes swift sense of the lead answers that are floating around in the ether? It's quite remarkable really. As months pass by this "A.I. Overview" facility is becoming increasingly astute, more accurate and more fluent. And yet it has just drifted into our online lives without much trumpeting at all.

As a kind of experiment, I put two questions into Google. The first one concerns a blog that I visit nearly every morning. I know the real life name of this particular blogger but most of us know him as Cro Magnon. I had never paused to ask why he chose that pseudonym and why indeed he came up with the blog title, "Magnon's Meanderings" so I asked this and received the following response in approximately two seconds:-

This is the aforementioned America photojournalist - Paul Chesley:-

But I cannot see any link between this guy and Cro Magnon's blog. Perhaps I am missing something and confusingly there's also reference to "Lady Magnon" and a dog called Bok. Perhaps Cro Magnon himself may be able to illuminate.

Next, with curiosity, I asked this question:-

I like the idea of this blog being "notable" and also "eclectic" but I must say that I was a little surprised that after just two seconds, Google's AI Overview  was able to reveal so much knowledge about this little outpost of the internet. It's not especially gratifying - just interesting to see how deep the facility is able to go.  

I am not sure I want to visit "Rimping Supermarket" as "rimping" sounds like a rather rude activity that I  have no wish to explore. I am fine without "rimping" thank you very much! Happy to stick with "googlediving" instead.