Response to "Searching for Dummies"

In the article, "Searching for Dummies," Edward Tenner is practically portraying online search engines as easy accesses to finding information in a negative way. I don't think Google is necessarily making people any less smart. I have succeeded in learning a lot from the site in a short amount of time, which is convenient for when I'm in a rush or need to know something right away. However, I have noticed that since these search engines have been growing and becoming more powerful, teachers have been taking citations of essays more seriously. They want less information from the internet and more from library sources, such as books, encyclopedias, magazine articles, etc. I also admit that because of the amount of information accessible on the internet, it would take me a much longer time to cite something from an actual hard-copy source because of how frequently I am looking information up online. Although internet sources could provide a researcher with false information, as long as there are credited authors with links to credentials on the page, the information can be trusted. The researcher also has to use good sense and judgement.