What if when you search for a solution to one of your problems you find that there are no solutions listed anywhere in the web? What if there are no google results for your query?
This essentially means that there are no solutions to your problem anywhere. If it is not in google, it does not exist. If it is not in the web, it is nowhere else either.
Contrary to the popular belief, this does not make your problem any harder. This makes your problem easier to solve. There is no recorded way to solve your problem means that you can solve the problem any way you want.
This is a chance to innovate. Every innovation in the world started with a problem.
Once you build a fantastic product to solve the problem, your product becomes the search results in google for the problem. You become the micro-expert in the subject.
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I’ve experienced this on a much smaller scale in my day-to-day programming tasks. I often find myself in a state of “analysis paralysis” trying to find the perfect solution to a problem. It’s liberating to find that none of your co-workers know how to solve a given problem either. Even your most naive solution is better than nothing.
Wht do you do when you do not find a solution to a problem on google?
I blog about it!
How often do you come across a problem which doesnt have a solution (excluding division by zero)?
In fact observing and finding such a problem is the difficult part. We say ‘right palce at the right time’ when such a problem finds you.
So keep your eyes open all the time.