Is Google making your smarter? Scientists proved so. Your brain is much more active during an internet search than it is while you are reading one book. How is this possible? When you are reading a book, your brain does not have to make any decisions, your brain does not have to be very active deciding on the relevance of information and your brain also does not have to compare information between many sources. When using a search engine your brain has to make lots of decisions such as the best site to visit, if you were already here before, what will be your next search term and so on. I believe personally that a search engine is capable of telling you much more than a book can ever tell you. A book most of the times is outdated with information at least weeks old, while in a search engine you will always find the best information in the world, already updated, and in blogs it’s in real time.
So why do you keep reading books? I like books, they talk about subjects in a much deeper way that no other article from a search engine talks and you can start in the first page until the last one. A website is harder to navigate. You have to browse pages, you need to search for pages which makes your experience a little worse if you want to absorb the entire website. Because of this, the RSS readers were invented. With Google Reader you can read an entire website just like if it were a book except you start in the last page until the first one. This is such a great thing!
Where can you find great sites to read? Again you must use a search engine such as Google, find a site about something you like to read, then just click on the magic Orange button and you are done.
Is Google the best place in the world to find information and become smarter? Google is very good but it also has it’s limitations. Google does not index or updates indexes in real time so you need to be aware of this lag. Google it’s not very smart deciding the best website in a subject. They are a business, they go where most people are even if it’s in a bad website, beware of this.
However if you want some quick answers in anything, the Google is the place to go.