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The internet's favorite verb for stuff you lost by not labeling it.
means To locate something you were looking for, or to discover something by chance.
from From Old English 'findan,' a very old Germanic verb (related to German 'finden' and Dutch 'vinden') going back to a root meaning something like 'to come upon' — the same ancient family that gave us words about traveling or encountering. It's been doing honest, unglamorous work for over a thousand years, long before it had to deal with desktops full of files named 'Untitled_final_v2.'
- keyboard shortcut
- Ctrl+F finds text faster than most people think
- etymology
- old english findan meant to discover by chance
- legal twist
- finders keepers rarely survives actual property law
- search engines
- built empires on making find feel like magic