• Question: Do you ever use advice from google or youtube videos in your work?

    Asked by chloeharris to Dominic, Maedeh, Matthew, Matt, Monica on 8 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Matthew Oldfield

      Matthew Oldfield answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      All the time! They are both amazing resources. Normally I will look for information there first. If we want to use the information it is then best to find a text book that I can trust that will verify the information found online.

      Youtube is an amazing resource for finding out about medical technology and surgical procedures. Not as good as seeing it live but very useful all the same.

    • Photo: Monica Rozeik

      Monica Rozeik answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Yes, all the time! If I can’t understand something through reading it in a text book, usually a video is a useful way of imaging it.

      Also sometimes google can explain things in more simpler ways than a text book would which is useful if you’re needing to learn something from scratch.

    • Photo: Matthew Round

      Matthew Round answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      If there is a situation that crops up that’s never happened before then very often Google can be immensely helpful.

      Anyone who works in engineering / science who says they dont use Google is a telling lies!!

    • Photo: Dominic Eggbeer

      Dominic Eggbeer answered on 18 Mar 2016:

      Honestly, yes a fair bit. Having said that, I wouldn’t necessarily take advice from online search engines, but I use them to find things that could be useful and analyse that information.

      Tools like google and youtube are powerful, but a good engineer or scientist will use them to source material, then consider what is good or bad about it before using it to inform experiments.

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