# Google is the Help Menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907>\
**Category:** blog\
**Created:** [January 26, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907 "2006-01-26T00:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JamesW](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@JamesW](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/JamesW)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907/21 "2010-02-06T00:00:00Z")

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Thanks for the FCKeditor tip.

We were trying to use FreeTextbox, but $199 USD for the source code, I don’t think so, and the documentation: Horrible.

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**Author:** ![don7](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@don7](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/don7)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907/22 "2010-02-06T00:00:00Z")

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Jeff,

You win:

a href="[http://www.google.com/microsoft](http://www.google.com/microsoft)"[http://www.google.com/microsoft/a](http://www.google.com/microsoft/a)

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**Author:** ![Oscarreyes](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Oscarreyes](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Oscarreyes)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907/23 "2010-04-30T00:00:00Z")

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Except of course, if your app is so small that it won’t get too much traffic on the internet and google doesn’t index too much of it.

May work for MS-Size products, like Office, but it may be not so good for niche apps. You still need to ship documentation for those.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/google-is-the-help-menu/907/24 "2025-01-07T06:39:53Z")

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