Google Wades into the Family Tree to Teach Tech

For the tech-savvy among us already dreading the annual trek home to find Grandpa wanting to know how to bookmark on his iPad and mom wanting to know how to "tag" photos on Facebook, help is on the way. It's a new site from Google, and it's just in time for the holidays.

For the tech-savvy among us already dreading the annual trek home to find Grandpa wanting to know how to bookmark on his iPad and mom wanting to know how to “tag” photos on Facebook, help is on the way. It’s a new site from Google, and it’s just in time for the holidays.

The online search giant this week launched TeachParentsTech.org, a new Web site and series of YouTube video tutorials designed to help kids help their parents make the digital switch.

“Talking to fellow Googlers, I learned that I wasn’t alone in my role as the one-man family tech support team,” Google’s Jason Toff said in a blog post.

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