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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
Not sure if anyone else is still reading this thread -- but in thinking about it overnight I am sure that the phrasing to "search for it in the database" is part of the problem here. Some of you may find it hard to believe, but there are still lots of people out there who would be completely intimidated by that computerese and would think that they are being asked to do something complicated and mathematical instead of merely "searching a dictionary."
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You could be right I spoke to one of my freinds whos a teacher and she said virtualy the same as you did on this post and the last. So I guess that its not really surprising that we get so many people who just post names rather than search the data base a combination of
Youth,
Having a short time on a school computer,
Having English as a second language,
Not being able to understand Computerese,
And a Google for name facts bringing someone to this page rather than the home page
Could add up to an awful lot of people not realising or being able to do a search for the name they want info on
A childs smile is worth more to me than Gold
Youth,
Having a short time on a school computer,
Having English as a second language,
Not being able to understand Computerese,
And a Google for name facts bringing someone to this page rather than the home page
Could add up to an awful lot of people not realising or being able to do a search for the name they want info on
A childs smile is worth more to me than Gold
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