Why ask?

[GuavaHalf]

Why do people ask questions here when typing a few words into 'Google' will often give them the answer?

[undercovers]

yawn ... go one someone answer this question AGAIN - what was it last time, find out what a scottish cupboard is or something along those lines, oh i can't even be bothered

[TommyC]

I'm sure Quizzy will be along shortly to cut-and-paste his previous reply, so I'll leave it to him..!!

[tartanwiz]

For the same reason you're asking YOUR question, Guava. Google does not know all. Besides, some questions stimulate debate and on-line conversation with other Answerbankers.

[smudge]

We all know you can find information on Google, but this site is about companionship too! Is anyone with me on that one?

[Sylday]

Also, some people are not very good spellers, find it hard to formulate search terms for Google, and/or have difficulty in picking out the most useful sites from the multiplicity of "hits" returned by Google.

[Quizmonster]

Since Tommy suggested it above, if you click here, that will link you to a web-page which shows not just my answer to this same question when it appeared earlier, but the answers of several other AnswerBank people too.

[woofgang]

obviously because we are more fun!

[Neath 715]

i don't have a firewall on here i checked