Yeah, definately picking up a "omg he doesnt google ten thousand times a day" vibe.

Kinda guessed as much from the start (hence the - probably to forward thinking conclusion).

But probably worth pointing out. The reason i noticed I hardly used google any more last week, was because I did a search and realised it had been so long since i saw google search results on a desktop i almost forgot what they look like.

And yeah, i know that is because i spend most of my time now on places like hn, closed networks with all the technical manuals you could ever need on hand, specialist forums or tor sites that google doesn't even know exist let alone provide search functionality.

But i am definately not alone. And it definately looks like the future (or at least more like what the internet used to be). Infinately more valuable information. No spam bots or corporate advertising. Just experienced techies sharing knowledge, skills and resources.

But all that is irrelevent to the point that unlike historically techies arent earning google revenue and non techies really dont use google that much.

We went through a time when adsense completely dominated the ad market.

Yet there is another google "dependancy" I havent seen for a very long time.

And that i share with pretty much everyone techy enough to install an ad blocker.