The New York Public Library Has a Human Google
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2016
- At the New York Public Library, you can call a librarian who will answer any researchable question you might have. The help-line has been around for over 40 years, and to this day it receives more than 30,000 calls a year. Need to know the color of an arctic fox's eyes? Ever wonder if there are full moons every night in Acapulco? Well, if Google isn't your thing, these librarians have got your answer.
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I thought she was just gonna spit out facts with their big brain energy-
they really clicked baited you and me, cuz I thought the same.
Same
『 Lu 』 I lowkey thought she will be like knowsmore from wreck it Ralph 2
Same🤣🤣🤣
Frrr 😂😂
person: ‘asks the librarian’
librarian: ‘googles the answer’
eunice Kurniawan , Case Closed is the best!
Person: *hits 1k likes on a comment and gets only 2 comments
Ikr
wow i feel exclusive ._.
Ha, they did that to me.
Me: wow I should give them a call!
Also me: oh yeah its 3 in the morning, and a pandemic
Bruh same
Literally my exact thoughts
Maybeeeee?
Rrriiggghhttttt.
fuckkkk i forgottt
The new “Phone A Friend” Option on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Thats a big brain
Top comment
You beat me to this comment😑
This would be a great idea if not for the fact there’s a 30 second time limit to that (unless I’m wrong - I’m sure there’s def a time limit tho).
@@Partyboy426 there's definitely a limit. I think it's 60 secs
They just got 3 million calls as soon as u posted this vid
Haha
I actually didn't check how many views it has
I thought that I was probably wrong
Qingqing Zhao there is still other people who make calls though they didnt watch the video. Plus a friend could of just shared a their number to another friend
Qingqing Zhao r/woooosh
hellraisingg ? Please don’t link subreddit outside of reddit, it makes no sense and it’s annoying af
Quick maff
imagine how many prank calls they r getting right now omg
Crain there is a fee , 0.04 cents call fee and 0.02 cents per min from fongo here but its probably worth it
Ahson Noaman thats not bad
i hate everything right like at least it’s not 9.99 per min like every ad
Crain ikr
How big is my [blank]? That sort of question.
I think every city should have this. She’s right, sometimes having someone explain it just feels better.
Call a reference librarian
i´m not paying taxes just so a dumbo like you feels comfortable
@@PokeKid5000 oof
@@PokeKid5000 Taxes, quite literally, are so that way your life as well as everybody else's lives are more comfortable. Paved roads are more comfortable than cracked streets, clean parks and neighborhoods make life pleasant to look at, politicians who (hopefully) do their job is a lot nicer than you personally reading 1000 page documents to discuss tariffs through ports of which you've never heard.
@@PokeKid5000 awfully bold of someone named "PokeKid5000" who doesn't understand the point of libraries to be calling people "dumbo"
*"How do you win an argument with your Mom without being 'disrespectful'?"*
My mom answered it she said "you don't."
I thought this was going to be a video about someone who has a photographic memory, but this is cool too
Akindu Dasanayake me too
Me three
Me four
Me six
me 5
The poor librarians don't know what they just did by publisizing their number lmao
it doesn't really matter if they get a serious call or a prank call. A prank call might even be better, they get money without needing to look up a serious answer
Yea that’s what I thought, already 70,000 likes alone😅
Its already public...
@@sp1nks248 yes but it's even more public now
Sp1nks24 true
*gets call*
Librarian: Hey what’s your question?
Me: Do a barrel role
Librarian: *OOOHHH SHH-*
Underrated comment
LOL 💀
"Some just wants somebody to talk to"
It really hit me...
What do you call a group of cats?
*pulls out the whole library*
many CATS?
Meowtain.
A clownman of cats
Blue Hazard 😂
Old lady's fantasy
**Who Wants to be a Millionare**
>Idk answer
>Uses Lifeline
>Calls this number
I'm going to remember that
Michaelforgothispassword , they probably can’t answer you in one minute
Is this a Genius?
Gonna do it if i go to that show
brxans omfg LEGIT
Plot twist: they actually google the question
They do
They do
Copied
They do
They do
“What do you call a group of cats?”
“Let me check on that”
*opens google*
No, she opened up tue library catalog to find one of the millions of millions of books in that library.
@@kevinyoussef9821 It was a joke
Me : 'calls the number'
Librarian : 'shhhhh'
Luqman S me: go to pornhub
Human google: ummm...
4.5k likes but 1 now 2 reply’s
This comment is three years old
Joe
I actually called the number, but it didn’t go through.
i waited 4 minutes for a reply to ask how many moons there are in the solar system. the man gave me the very detailed answer of 193 moons and he even named some smaller planets like the lesser known planets that are similar to pluto but i forgot the names because it was complicated. i live in spain so i spent a lot of money on that call but i was worth it 😂
Legendary
Hahah don't encourage me to call :-) i know i will spent lots of money otherwise
Sedna,Haumea with hi'aka and namaka,makemake,eris,pluto and charon,and many more
You are worth it?
I guess ur not familiar with Google 😂😂
Protip: if NYC is long distance for you, try your local library.
This is a very normal service offered by most libraries, it's just that most libraries don't have a dedicated department for it, so the librarian who helps you with reference questions at your local public or academic library probably has many other duties as well.
_calls_
*Hi, I’d like to reverse google this image*
*nervously sweating*
uhh umm... f*ck..
They will just answer how to do it
YOOOOO MINETAAAA MY BOY
Mineta youll probably ask them for pervy shit
LMFAO-
Why hasn’t my dad came back from the gas station
Because you didn't subscribe to pewdiepie
@@broskii7860 haha
These unoriginal comments make me want to kill myself
Let me check on that.
Maybe you didn't heard him clearly, i think he mean't the gas chamber
Well they should be faster than internet explorer
Still Not answered bY Internet Explorer
Don't talk about my boo like that😡
There is a lot of Information that you cannot Google but can find in books
@@akihitonarihisago4276 Not AS much as you think...(for e.g.pron ;-) )
Carlos Banderas Oh shoot it just answered
I love this story so much. I'm still sad you all aren't making videos anymore. Phenomenal channel. Exactly the content I want to watch when I come to TH-cam.
Hey, I may be 3 years late... But I do have to tell you that they're back. Like, a year or two ago?
Edit: Just checked their "A new chapter" video, it's been at least a year ago.
“Hello how can I help you”
Me: *what does the fox say*
0:35 sounds so much like a recording
stormblade 96 what
It takes a microphone to record sound... EVERY SOUND IN THE VIDEO IS A RECORDING. Do you go to the met and say "that looks like a painting"
I work customer service for a CBD company and my coworker has a radio voice and loves answering the calls like this. 21 years old.. we get a lot of old ladies and they love him.
Echo it sounds like a really good text to speech
this dude made the recording for when you call out of hours i’m pretty sure, he sounds exactly like it.
Still better than Bing.
Aslo... they don't have Ads like google.
Google had adds??
@@hamzabinsajid.....8152 yup
Hamza Bin Sajid yup
Guy Nir nooooo.😂😭😭😭😂😂
@@miles420 what do you mean?
I’m going to call them and ask why this is is my recommended
I called and the lady was so nice! and she answered my question correctly and quickly too!
librarian: *hello, how might i help you*
me: so what pill did mike posner take when he was in ibiza?
Rayan i really want to know
Rayan omg lmao
The one that could make Avicii think Mike Posner's actually cool.
He said in an interview that he was talking about taking ecstasy.
Edit: Genius interview. I just watched it.
xan
I also think people prefer calling them over Googling an answer because there's a refreshingness having help from humans. Plus, sometimes the computer just doesn't exactly have/understand what you're looking for, and you can explain it better to humans.
Elizabeth Armbruster So there *IS* at least one library that still offers this service! That’s comforting to know. This is the way ALL libraries were back in the day before the internet, and it’s MUCH preferable.
PLUS the answers are probably more legit.
You literaly said what the video said...
Search engines are faster.
@@dlgksidiffnr4671 if you can't use a search engine the maybe.
I honestly think if any one of these 10 people plays the "Who wants to be a millionaire" they are gonna win.
With so many random questions being asked, I'm pretty sure any one of them could be at least a mini-library on their own.
Me: How do I get a Girlfriend?
Librarian: Please Hold.
...
Me: Hello?
...
Me: calls librarians at new york because I have a question
Librarians: google the question to get the answer
Harry Reichert oh yeah yeah
Harry Reichert Stolen
@@haykg what do you mean i was the first one to comment that
@@meatman7471 no you weren't
Why on earth do you have that profile picture?? It's so annoying & generic🙄🙄
this sounds like my dream job.
toogletoggle Because he is Joseph Stalin
toogletoggle Chill. Just a joke
toogletoggle Humans can take comments or text wrong because they dont know the tone the other actually wanted to speak in. So I just missunderstood. But my joke was similar to "he is a savage"
toogletoggle This is the first time i have had a conversation like this. Im amazed at how fast the messages come. Mindblown
Catherine Leimberg, 420th like
Her: I’m human google
Me: where do all the lost nerf darts go
Her: good question (silently) shit
I think this service is best for people who need answers to questions which need a little bit of research to find or something related to old records which will take time to find on your own
They'd probably be really good at Jeopardy or something! Imagine all the information they've got stored away in their minds! That would be a fun job.
Assuming they already have a good memory to begin with.
Janet from The Good Place irl.
Maliha Intikhab YES
OMG YEAH
YESSS
YAAAASSSS
Ayyyyy
Thank you New York Public Library. Nice share. Thanks for it too.
Bernard actually answered one of my questions.
Did they pick up the phone for you? I tried calling and it went straight to the answering machine
Oh, it was about a year ago when he answered one of my calls. I'm not sure if the numbers still available.
@@le_on6939 ah ok
but do they have memes?
call and ask
XD
did u call?
I'm going to call and ask them 😂😩
Alexandra Dorantes what happened.
Omg if you are in that taxi game show, and you need to phone a friend you can jut call this number lol
Genius, I'm putting their number in my phone just for this reason.
Michael Inocente you are so smart
I don't know how many times I've replayed the start....
Just to hear those satisfying page flips.....
I called and it was beautiful. I feel special because of this video.
Also there are some questions that Google cannot answer surprisingly enough, I've found that out and I've found this number to be quite useful
What were your questions? I'm curious.
Sylvie M.
Same :0
@@sylviem.1299 You're saying you've managed to never get Google lost?
Please, teach me your methods.
I thought she was omnipotent lmao
Dian Ozoa Same. Got my hopes up then shattered....
Dian Ozoa omniscient is the word
omnipotent means all-powerful
It's omniscient, did you learn it in school?
“Hello, how may I help you?”
“Is God real?”
I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer to the squirrel question
Me too, like i would never have imagined that question in a billion years
looks like i found my homework.
Imagine someone keep 'Prank Calling them' ;---;
C_r0p s I just did
C_r0p s in down
@@Armadillo247 what happened
entrepreneur success club RIP library.
I’m legit about to
Hats off to you people 💕💕
I hope this never goes away. ❤️
That’s a beautiful idea :]
ok
"Why do 18th century English paintings have so many squirrels in them, and how did they tame them so that they wouldn't bite the painter"
If every painting truly reflects what's in front of a painter, I would question how a painter painted Satan
Eh. Dunno, I still think they would still need a model. It's like human body, you practically see it every day but when drawing it. Errr... It's more complicate.
That deep
Satanic ritual, duh
They never saw Satan, it's their interpretation of him from the bible
Remember that sexy sculpture of satan?
Useful for questions that require access to documents that are't readily available online like the archives
The work load for the librarians just got a boost after this video...
i know few ppl with internet and they dont know how to google...
Vitycam Unless you use anything that's not Google Chrome :P
fuck Google use startpage or duckduckgo they don't data mine you
Yeah, some ppl just know facebook lmao
"Climate change isnt real"
"I have 1,000,000 results you're wrong, and 1 result you're right"
"i knew it"
isnt that from collegehumour? i love that channel haha
JUST BECAUSE I HAVE IT DOSENT MEAN ITS TRUE!
College humor lol it was on vaccines
@@brad349miller bro climate change is real. Just accept it
@@brad349miller Climate change is real. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Just what I needed
When I was a little kid, and had questions and no adult , I would call the telephone book help line, they were very helpful.
*instantly calls NYPL how much teeth does a great white shark have*
Why is it called building when it's already built?
Alpaca the rebel lmfao
lol
What a tricky question 😂
Whoa.
Blame our ancestors
This is really a good one!
Her: I can answer any question
6 year old me: How do I become a dog
Her: Bye
Your 6?
no she used to be six
They give/tell you the exact same answer what u need But
*google* doesn't.
Ah, back when we did not have internet when we wanted to know the answer for our homework.
*we end up not doing it anyways*
Some people still don't have the internet. That's who calls.
0:48 Matthew looked like he really couldn’t be bothered
Yooo if I’m stuck on a homework question I’m calling them
They just got 2.2 million calls after this video.
King Dabril why
Stolen with sparce alteration, aforementioned alteration not servicing or transforming the original comment. Dislike.
robert ahahHaHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
@@chefdog6033 The difference is is that it there's another comment of the same idea and composure that was made earlier, and that this isn't that funny because the other one was original. Yes, jokes aren't always original but when it's in the same comment section it's redundant and lazy. I hate lazy comments.
@@mechanicalruby be my teacher
I would, but the roaming would cost me a month's rent
use Skype idiot
Ahh yes, just Skype the New York Public Library XD
Taylor, you're an idiot.
Skype allows you to make phone calls.
Digital Dirk and Skype requires internet idiot
Digital Dirk Or he used phone data ;) 70% of people who comment on TH-cam videos are watching on mobile devices. Get educated nerd. 😎
Finally some one who can't/won't ignore my call
I should have made a list of all my question to ask them one each month.
This would have been useful in Cash Cab.
Me: *calls the number*
Me: why am I still a virgin?
Because you haven't had sex.
Mirza Ahmed *My MIND has reach Transcendence*
Mirza Ahmed r/whoooosh
@@rocas1491 oh shut up please stop using this outside of Reddit you hob.
Clayface The Legend r/whoooosh
I'm surprised this is a story. Isn't this basically what libraries are for? I've always asked my local librarians about anything I can't find out myself... They're so good at locating the right source of information.
This just makes me happy.
OK, the google before google!
And also after it...
Her husband could say...
*I don’t need google my wife knows everything...*
Google it more like wife it
The wife always knows! 😛😊
Interesting story, keep em coming
these librarians would answer whatever random question you had, while librarians here in the city library just being grumpy 247
It’s not because I don’t have access to the internet or want someone to talk to it’s just... I DONT WANT A BILLIONS OF WEBSITES I WANT A STRAIGHT ANSWER. So yeah
I don't know but some reason I thought that librarian is a human google or something...
Tauseef Asad I got that too
nah she seems tired. I bet these people annoyed the hell out of her, while she was trying to work
that’s so coool!! i love this.
I called an asked why stomachs growl, and one of the guys said "because it's a muscle and needs to be stretched" and then I said "ok" because I thought he answered the question, then he hung up. Just google ur questions.
could this number be used on "how to be a millionaire"?
No, that lifeline doesn't exist anymore (at least on the American version).
Well they've gotta get paid like a shit ton of money right? I mean having to pick up the phone every fucking minute to answer a question like "why do I still not have a boyfriend psychologically?" is already stupid to me and I just created it.
JJ X You could always call and ask how much they make. haha
Wow lol I asked how many people where in the world and it took him 4 minutes to find a anwser which is no problem but he sounded so depressed and then he told me 7.5 billion and then I said thank you so much for ur time and he hung up mid sentence 😅
"What do you call a group of cats?"
Googles it
nice
Did anyone tried to call them whilst watching the video?
Nah I aint payin for international calls lmao
...and now, the amount of calls per yer is about to triple. so will the amount of interesting questions.
I called them. They said the library is not open due to COVID-19 😢
We had this at Pitt in college. You could call a number and ask ANYTHING you choose. Not even just something you’d find in a library book. This was back in the 90’s+ decades since.
wasn't this uploaded the other day?
When I called I just heard a voice recording but it was taking too long so I hung up
*glances at profile pic.*
Well maybe you broke the line
ARMYYYY. We’re everywhere
Congrats on giving these people an even larger base of callers, they look pretty fed up already
r.i.p great big story
Google:I'm so smart
Librarian:Hold my brain
MIGUELR OMO 🤔🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️
I work as an online consultant for research at a university library. I kind of feel like a human Google sometimes because people think you have the answer to everything. One time I got a call from a person on the road and they asked how to get to a particular place. I had to look up Google maps and guide them to it because their phone didn't have gps. Good times 😂 I love being a librarian because information is rampant, the correct information is not. Stay informed folks!
This is the number to call to win at a game show.
WoW 😲 that's patience and dedication 👍