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The perils of being a celebrity offspring*

A message from my oldest (a freshman(person) in college):

"I googled a question for economics and your blog came up as the first answer"

A few comments:

  1. I have taught all of my kids "Before you ask a question, try to find the answer on your own. Google is a great place to start."  Google is by far the greatest invention since Al Gore invented the internet tubes.
  2. Because the message was a text I don't know the tone.  The message expresses either admiration that Dad came up first in a Google search, or teenage embarrassment that Dad came up first in a Google search.  I'm hoping for the former, but would put money on the latter.
  3. Should google as a verb be capitalized?  No, really?  Should it?
  4. I have a paranoid vision of her econ professor telling the class, "Whatever you do, don't use the Environmental Economics blog as a source for real economics.  Those Haab and Whitehead guys are idiots.

*I am not a celebrity.  That was a joke.

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  1. John Whitehead Avatar
    John Whitehead

    “micro-celebrity”
    1. Please call it “The Google.”
    2. I would go with teenage embarrassment except she didn’t ask you to stop.
    3. “The Google” should be capitalized. I think google as a verb is lower case, especially since Google (the company) doesn’t want you to use lower case.
    4. Yes

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  2. Ironman Avatar
    Ironman

    I’ll disagree with John and suggest that you should go with ALL CAPS when you use google as a verb, both to convey the inherent excitement involved and so as not to offend “The Google”.

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