Back in 2010s, website called Let me google it has gained considerable popularity by serving one purpose: snark.
The site allows you to generate a custom link that you can send to the person asking the question. When you click the link, an animation of the process of entering a question into Google plays. The idea is to show the person asking the question how effortless it would be for them to simply check the answer themselves.
It’s actually an insult. It’s comical and naughty.
There’s nothing wrong with a little naughtiness in the right context. If an openly hostile person is wasting your time on social media by asking easy-to-find questions, I think you should go ahead and enjoy a little passive aggression (as a treat).
However, in more personal contexts, using Let Me Google That For You makes it clear that you do not respect the person you gave the link to and that their question is a waste of time. If someone from your workplace or personal life asks you a question, it’s because they want to Your specific contributionso it’s better to just provide an answer – preferably with any context you can provide – than to send a link to a Google search results page.
Now, it’s 2025, people are behind it Let me google it also offer Let me talk about it for youthat works exactly as you think. And its existence points to something recent: how impolite it is to answer questions with artificial intelligence – especially in a more professional context.
Wasting time
Telling someone something to Google can be fun and rewarding, but it isn’t helpful. I would put a paste or screenshot of a conversation with ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI agent in the same category: unhelpful and a bit rude.
Developer Alex Martsinovich touched on this issue a while ago in a blog post titled it’s rude to show people AI results: “Be polite and don’t send AI text messages to people,” he writes. “My own view on AI etiquette is that AI results can only be transferred if they are adopted as your own or there is explicit consent from the receiving party.” I think that’s a pretty good framework for AI etiquette.
If someone asks you a question when they could have asked a machine instead, it’s because they wanted to your perspective. The Internet exists, at least in theory, for people to connect with each other and benefit from each other’s knowledge. Answering a question with AI results ignores this energetic, especially if you don’t say that’s what you’re doing.