Googling Google Using Google

Back in the 90s I used to teach a course I helped to design called "Advanced Internet Research". Pre-Google, AltaVista was the best search engine out there, but you really had to work at telling it what you wanted to find, so we taught people how to construct queries using Boolean syntax. How times change. Google dominates the search engine world. What's odd though is that people use Google today to find stuff they already have. In other words, Google has become the front end to the entire Internet-thingy.