My First Talking Tablet - Hey, Siri!

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A friend gave me his slightly used iPad to be nice. I was very grateful, yet I had no instruction manual, so I was left to my "devices." Happily there is the Internet, and I have a son who grew up amid computers. Well, imagine my surprise when I held the signoff button just a little too long, and this color waveform appears at the bottom of the screen and a microphone pops up. A woman asks, "How can I help you?" Hm. Well I found out this is SIRI and you have to speak to it in a manner that uses few and simple words of a particular format. Well, I figured I'd test this thing out. This was going to be too cool. So I was thinking, I wonder if I can tell it to "google" something. This was the result: "Hey Siri." The woman said, "May I help you?" "Google tomato hornworm." The woman's voice then said, "Searching for porn." "No, no, no, no, no!" I didn't know what to do, so I turned my iPad off.