The Fast-Food Information Age: We Are What We Read

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The Fast-Food Information Age: We Are What We Read
      

Some 90% and 98% of library users today assume that they can get all of the information they need just by doing a search on Google.

This means that even teachers and students---whose jobs and degrees depend on trust and accuracy---in addition to ordinary Internet users, turn to search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo) as their first, and perhaps only, destination for information.

This automatic reliance on Internet search engines occurs in spite of the likelihood that the best or most reliable information may not be freely available on the Internet, but rather behind firewalls on premium sites that have been written, researched, vetted, and compiled by scholars, researchers, and other knowledge professionals.

         

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