When Google Is More Useful Than Your Memory

What happens when you realize that Google is more powerful than your own memory? I just had this experience... a colleague asked me how to turn off that annoying "Reading Layout View" that Outlook uses to open MS Word email attachments. We looked around the menus in Word and Outlook for a few minutes with no luck, so I sent her back to her office and told her I'd pursue the issue. I looked around a bit more with no success, so decided to Google it. Typing "outlook 2003 reading layout view" into Google I discovered that I didn't even need to leave my own hard drive to find the answer. I've been using Google's Desktop Search tool to index the contents of my hard drive, and Google found a hit! Stored in my own writing - "Tech Tips" - archive in Tech Tip #1 was my own description of how to solve this colleague's problem. It was a tech tip that I'd written back in September. I had no memory of it. So Google's search feature gave me the best result of millions or potential hits, at the top of my list. Why even bother to try to remember what I've written about in the past? I just have to remember to Google it :)