英国老奶奶用谷歌搜索时不忘写“请”和“谢谢”
Google has thanked an 86-year-old British grandmother who proved old-fashioned manners have a place in the modern world when she typed "please" and "thank you" in an internet search.
谷歌近日向一位86岁的英国老奶奶表达了感谢，这位老奶奶在网络搜索时不忘写“请”和“谢谢”，证明了老式的礼貌在现代世界中依然有一席之地。
May Ashworth's grandson Ben John found her laptop open and took a photo of the unusually polite online request. She was asking for a translation of the Roman numerals MCMXCVIII.
John, a 25-year-old from Wigan, has been retweeted more than 11,000 times.
He told the BBC he and his boyfriend do not have a clothes dryer so they go to Ashworth's house for their laundry.
"I asked my nan why she used 'please' and 'thank you' and it seemed she thinks that there is someone - a physical person - at Google's headquarters who looks after the searches.
"She thought that by being polite and using her manners, the search would be quicker," he said.