{"id":95339,"date":"2016-06-16T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95339"},"modified":"2016-06-17T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:14:37","slug":"why-this-polite-grandmothers-google-search-went-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/95339-why-this-polite-grandmothers-google-search-went-viral","title":{"rendered":"Why this polite grandmother&#8217;s Google search went viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandmother May Ashworth&#8217;s (85) polite Google searches went viral after her grandson,Bejanmin John thought it would be funny to put them on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>May always begins her Google searches with &#8220;please&#8221;, and finishes them with &#8220;thank you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The feel-good post, which was shared on Twitter on 9 June, has already passed 7,166 re-tweets and over 10,000 likes at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted the story to also make its way to the mainstream press outlets, with sites including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2016\/06\/14\/grandmother-polite-google-search\/21395211\/\" target=\"_blank\">AOL<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/grandmas-polite-google-search-is-one-for-the-ages_us_5760188ce4b0e4fe5143baec\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong> covering the story.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the original tweet for yourself below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Omg opened my Nan&#39;s laptop and when she&#39;s googled something she&#39;s put &#39;please&#39; and &#39;thank you&#39;. I can&#39;t \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hiy2tecBjU\">pic.twitter.com\/hiy2tecBjU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben (@eckyythump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eckyythump\/status\/740980720726908929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about viral stories like this that seem to gather so much attention? Is there any harm in major international publications covering them as &#8220;news&#8221;? 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