Who’s the ‘We’ in ‘We didn’t find anything to show here’?

I take my personal privacy seriously which is why I like open source software and hosting my own servers at home. When I recently used Outlook (for work, non-personal…), I noticed that when a search for a specific email came up empty handed the following text was shown: ‘We didn’t find anything to show here.‘ I find such a response rather creepy because who is ‘We’? I always thought the software on the computer or the server was doing the search but ‘we’ is plural…

One thought on “Who’s the ‘We’ in ‘We didn’t find anything to show here’?”

  1. Maybe a certain software company thought that “we found nothing” sounds less creepy than “i found nothing”

    At least I think that “I” sounds creepy as well… I’d rather prefer “$application has found nothing”…

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