I do believe this is a fair question. Google has made searching for information a million times easier than it used to be. When researching for a paper, I am positive that most students (including myself) refer to Google to find resources for them. We don't really have to know the Dewey Decimal System and look through stacks of books at the library; we just have to tell Google what to tell us about. Our ability to find information on our own has definitely been reduced by the ease of using search engines, but I think most people would still be able to find things on their own if they had to.
The commercials for Bing definitely contribute to the idea that Google makes us stupid. But, the pitiful people in the commercials suffer from "search-overload," not necessarily from stupidity.
However, I think that Google actually makes us smarter. Information is literally at our fingertips. Google brings the information we want and need right to us without much hassle. We can learn about anything that we want to through Google. How can such a great tool make us stupid?
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