The Internet Can’t Solve All Your Problems

Why we expect Google to find equally effective answers to ‘how to fix a broken sink’ and ‘how to fix a broken marriage’

Matthew McFarlane
Forge
Published in
12 min readAug 19, 2021

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Is there anything so satisfying as the moment when you Google some bizarrely specific question — one you believe to be so esoteric only a handful of other mortals have ever needed the answer —…

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Matthew McFarlane
Forge
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