Is Google Making USupid Essay

Ivy League universities continue to produce diverse elites, some of which innovate the world’s leading technology. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are two scholars who developed just that. They met at Stanford where they engineered a search engine called “BackRub”. Their schools’ server was used in the early stages of development; however, the limited bandwidth, a term used to describe the amount of date being used at once, forced them to register their growing search engine as its own domain. Larry and Sergey’s mission is reflected by the mathematical term “googol”, which means a number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros, to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the World Wide Web. This led to the creation of Google, the empire of search engines which is currently worth almost $50 billion. As Google seeks to develop this “silicone memory” search engine, Nicholas Carr, the writer of “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, and optimists alike express concern. According to research from Time Magazine, access to nearly limitless information is not only bad for human discourse, but it is making us worse at remembering things. Unconsciously, our brains revert to the Internet as soon as we start trying to recall the …show more content…
The same survey shows Google is primarily used for looking up facts and how-to videos. Facts including the location of a business or a simple video on how to use a computer command. Now Google even displays virtual tours of places around the world via Google Maps! According to CheatSheet.com, Google is ranked the number one source for time wasting on the job. At least twenty-four percent of the surveyed group claimed it to be, and thirty percent of the same group admitted they waste one hour or more doing so. Some find humor in trivial information, whereas others avoid even the idea of wasting away their time with