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So I was doing a search query today on Google and it didn’t find anything. That happens when you do very specific searches. Something caught my attention though. The “didn’t find anything” page said:

Your search ‘ “[search terms]” - did not match any documents.

I found it very interesting that Google decided to use the term ‘documents.’ When I search the web I usually think of searching for web pages, even though I do search for specific documents every once in a while.

My teachers always taught me that the information on the internet was unreliable. They NEVER described anything you found on the internet as a document. It was always a webpage, which carried a distinctly negative connotation to it. This may be because when I was going to school when the internet was first coming online, but even now teachers caution against citing anything on the internet as a source.

Do you think Google’s use of the word ‘document’ was on purpose? Is Google trying to redefine the definition of webpages or am I just reading too much into this? In reality a webpage is a document… but document sounds so much better to me…