You Could Look It Up by Jack Lynch review – search engines can't do everything

For some years now, the most satisfyingly passive-aggressive way of responding to a factual query on social media has been to reply with a link from the website "Let Me Google That For You". On opening the link, your pesterer sees an animation of their exact query being typed into the Google search field, the "I'm feeling lucky" box being clicked and a page showing what is almost certainly the answer to their question. It is a sadistically elaborate vehicle for a simple message: you are wasting both our time by asking a person something, when you could ask a search engine. But the search engine is hardly infallible. It is commonly assumed these days that all useful information is on the internet, but it isn't.