Least-efficient search-engine use ever

I knew an executive assistant who used to print out her boss's emails and then reply to them on his behalf based on his dictated responses; I thought that was a pretty inefficient way of using the net. According to Nicole Laporte's The Men Who Would Be King (a book about the history of Dreamworks), Jeffery Katzenberg used to get an assistant to run search queries for him and video record the results so that he could review them later.