"Omg opened my Nan's laptop and when she's googled something she's put 'please' and 'thank you'. I can't [sic]," he tweeted. It has since been retweeted almost 27,000 times and even spotted by the tech Gods over at Google headquarters. "Dear Grandma, No thanks necessary. Sincerely, Google," they tweeted. She also got a reply from Google UK: "Dearest Ben's Nan. Hope you're well. In a world of billions of Searches, yours made us smile. Oh, and it's 1998. Thank YOU."

Eckersley explained to the BBC that he spotted the search on his grandmother's laptop when he popped by her house to run some errands. "I live with my boyfriend and we don't have a dryer at our house, so I usually go over to my nan's to do our washing," he said. "While I was waiting I thought I'd go on the internet and that's why I opened her laptop."

He can hardly believe how much attention his grandmother's manners are receiving. "Well today has definitely been one of the weirdest of my life," he wrote on Wednesday. "Apparently Kim K's makeup artist has put my tweet on their Instagram. Oh," he added shortly after. Fairfax Media