"...it is just curious that she needs help finding them!"
Yes and no. When I first started attempting to do searches via Google (or other search engine), I had a terrible, frustrating, unproductive, unsuccessful time of it, time after time after time. Then one day, things seemed to fall into place and I was doing much better, much easier and more successful searches. One friend of mine, who makes his living in IT, amazes me when he can't do a reasonable search ("...because if virginiadear can do it, anybody should be able to do it", I can just hear him thinking this, and it's true I'm not very internet savvy) or when he's looking at a URL and murmuring, "H'mm... This is www-dot-entityname-dot-D-E--- I don't trust it, probably a scam and a bot because---" We tend to get impatient with him: "It's D-E for Deutchland---Germany, the way U-K is 'United Kingdom,' C-A is 'Canada,' A-U is 'Australia,' I-T is 'Italy,' P-L, 'Poland;' P-R is 'Puerto Rico'---" He gets it fixed in his head that valid, safe URL's have to end with dot-com because most of what he does in his job is internal for a U.S. company and his web-surfing is all English-speaking based (and parochial.) Anyway, if you asked him to find the Peacock Dress worn at the Delhi Durbar by Lady Mary Curzon, Vicereine of India, he'd manage to get it completely discombobulated and you'd wind up with hits about Mary (Molly) Jemison, stolen from her family at their farm in eastern Pennsylvania by Seneca Indians, and if you added the matter of footwear to the search, you'd be learning how Molly learned to make moccasins. (Initially the Indians named her "Corn Tassel," for her pretty pale blond hair which reminded them of corn silk; when the British attempted to 'rescue' her years later, offering her 'indentured servantship' (amounted to being a white man's property), she refused to leave---at that time. The Seneca changed her name to "Little Woman [she was quite petite] Who Speaks Two [Languages: Lene Lanape, and English]. But I'm digressing.
Another factor which might be coming into play is that of, "Impossible to find," sort of like expecting not to be able to locate the box of salt in the kitchen cupboard and not seeing it even though it's right in front of your eyes.
And one more might be just plain overwhelm of a sort: "Glad to help as much as I'm able, but OMG, I could never, would never, undertake any project of this scope, scale, magnitude---"
Yes and no.
When I first started attempting to do searches via Google (or other search engine), I had a terrible, frustrating, unproductive, unsuccessful time of it, time after time after time.
Then one day, things seemed to fall into place and I was doing much better, much easier and more successful searches.
One friend of mine, who makes his living in IT, amazes me when he can't do a reasonable search ("...because if virginiadear can do it, anybody should be able to do it", I can just hear him thinking this, and it's true I'm not very internet savvy) or when he's looking at a URL and murmuring, "H'mm... This is www-dot-entityname-dot-D-E--- I don't trust it, probably a scam and a bot because---"
We tend to get impatient with him: "It's D-E for Deutchland---Germany, the way U-K is 'United Kingdom,' C-A is 'Canada,' A-U is 'Australia,' I-T is 'Italy,' P-L, 'Poland;' P-R is 'Puerto Rico'---"
He gets it fixed in his head that valid, safe URL's have to end with dot-com because most of what he does in his job is internal for a U.S. company and his web-surfing is all English-speaking based (and parochial.)
Anyway, if you asked him to find the Peacock Dress worn at the Delhi Durbar by Lady Mary Curzon, Vicereine of India, he'd manage to get it completely discombobulated and you'd wind up with hits about Mary (Molly) Jemison, stolen from her family at their farm in eastern Pennsylvania by Seneca Indians, and if you added the matter of footwear to the search, you'd be learning how Molly learned to make moccasins. (Initially the Indians named her "Corn Tassel," for her pretty pale blond hair which reminded them of corn silk; when the British attempted to 'rescue' her years later, offering her 'indentured servantship' (amounted to being a white man's property), she refused to leave---at that time. The Seneca changed her name to "Little Woman [she was quite petite] Who Speaks Two [Languages: Lene Lanape, and English]. But I'm digressing.
Another factor which might be coming into play is that of, "Impossible to find," sort of like expecting not to be able to locate the box of salt in the kitchen cupboard and not seeing it even though it's right in front of your eyes.
And one more might be just plain overwhelm of a sort: "Glad to help as much as I'm able, but OMG, I could never, would never, undertake any project of this scope, scale, magnitude---"
It's just the human mind....
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