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Sep 06, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration:Joseph Joyce
Time to write my piece for The Big Sssue.
Crack knuckles, power up the laptop and stare down the blank page. Wasn’t it the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu who said every journey begins with a single step? Actually, was it him? Better check. Open a browser window and fire up the search engine. After all, every essay begins with a Google search…
But what, in fact, is a Google search? What are we searching? One of Google’s engineers, Matt Cutts, explains: “The first
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