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It's problematic to not distinguish between things you know and thing you just googled, regardless of which is more accurate.

The problem is similar to not looking and determining what the information of the article you Google is. This feeds into the now stereotype behavior of someone confusing a Google search with actual research. Google doesn't help with it's question-answer section, many of which are mis-categorized and from not-necessarily reliable sources.

Quantity has a quality all it's own.

A large quantity of poor quality of information is certainly not something that it would be useful to have automatically pouring through one's cranium, to say the least.



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