Today at work, and I don’t even remember how it came up, we were talking about a movie that one of my coworkers saw. It’s about some guys who use a time machine to go back and hunt dinosaurs. One of them accidentally kills a butterfly, and this has profound effects on the time in the future that they then return to. He couldn’t remember the name of the movie.
So I type “dinosaur butterfly movie” into my handy little Firefox Google search bar. The second hit takes me to a page that currently isn’t coming up (Although Google has a cache) that gives the plot of the movie, “A Sound of Thunder”, based on a Ray Bradbury story. The page came up this afternoon when I first looked for it, though. What did we do before Google? I don’t even know. But I’ve gotten used to this instant location of whatever I need using only a vague idea of what it is to find it.
For reference, the first Yahoo result that refers to the movie is the fourth, and it’s for a Boston Globe review trashing the movie. MSN returns as the first hit the Wikipedia page for the Bradbury story, which references the movie. But I don’t use their searches, because they suck. Although Yahoo hasn’t killed Flickr yet. I do give them credit for that.