LMGTFY still works. Nobody googles anymore.
Let Me Google That For You was perfect for 2008. Someone asked a question they could have typed themselves, and you replied with a link that typed it for them, slowly, so they could watch. The point was never the search results. The point was the performance.
The performance still works. The destination stopped working.
What broke
Search stopped being where answers live. Ask "how do I reset my router" today and the results page is an ad block, an AI summary, three affiliate roundups, and a forum thread from 2014. The LMGTFY gag ends by dropping your friend into that. They still have to do the work — which was fine as a lesson and useless as an answer.
Meanwhile the actual behaviour changed. The lazy question that used to go to Google now goes to a chat window. When someone asks you something they could have looked up, they could have asked a model instead — and they did not, because asking you was easier.
The same joke, one step further
AIsked keeps the performance and moves the destination. You paste the question, pick who answers it — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok — and get a link. Send the link instead of the answer.
Your friend opens it and watches the address get typed, the question get typed into the chat box, and the answer arrive. Then they read the answer. The joke is that someone did the work for them, in front of them. The payload is that the work is actually done.
What the link does
- Types the question. Letter by letter, into a chat interface. That is the whole gag.
- Shows a real answer. Generated by the model you picked, through OpenRouter.
- Costs the reader nothing. No account, no paywall, no "sign up to continue".
- Stays up. Each link is a permanent public page at its own address, not a redirect that reconstructs itself from the URL.
That last one is the real difference from LMGTFY. An LMGTFY link is a throwaway: everything lives in the query string, and nothing is left behind. Here, the question and the answer become a page. If someone else asks the same thing later, the page is already there — and the answer costs nothing to show a second time.
What it does not do
It does not download anything, install anything, or ask anyone to log in. It does not collect the recipient's data — the only thing stored about a reader is a salted hash of their address, kept for 48 hours so the free limit can be counted, and never the address itself.
It is a link to a page with a question and an answer on it. That is all it is.
The catch, honestly
The answer comes from a model. Models are confidently wrong sometimes, and nobody reviews these pages before they go up. For "how long to boil an egg" that is fine. For anything about health, money, or law, the answer is a starting point, not a source.
And your question becomes a public page. That is the trade: the reason the answer is free to read is that the page is worth keeping. Do not put anything private in it.
Try it
Type the next lazy question you get into the box on the front page, pick a model, and send the link. If it lands, they will send one back.
Questions people also ask
Is LMGTFY still working?
The original let-me-google-that-for-you links still redirect, but the joke has aged badly: the animation breaks on mobile, and Google's own results page is now a wall of ads and AI summaries. The gag lands only if the destination is useful, and for most lazy questions the useful destination is no longer a search page.
What is a good LMGTFY alternative?
Anything that ends in an answer rather than a search box. AIsked takes the question, sends it to an AI model, and leaves a public page with the answer on it. The recipient watches the question get typed and gets their answer without signing in.
Does the person need an account to see the answer?
No. Reading is free and needs no account, on any page of the site. Asking your own questions is free too for the first three per day; after that you sign in.
Is it rude to send someone one of these links?
It is a joke about the question, not about the person, and it ends with them actually getting the answer. That is the difference from the original: LMGTFY gave you a lesson, this gives you a lesson and the answer.