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  2. Google effect - Wikipedia

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    The Google effect, also called digital amnesia, [1] is the tendency to forget information that can be found readily online by using Internet search engines.According to the first study about the Google effect, people are less likely to remember certain details they believe will be accessible online.

  3. Googling might make people feel smarter than they actually are

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    The "Google effect," as one team dubbed it, is our tendency to forget information that can. Google makes it easy to pull up just about any information that's available, but some psychological ...

  4. External memory (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The Google effect, as described above, is a primary example of these concerns. Much of the criticism about external memory is a product of common misconceptions about memory; specifically, the fact that people are very poor judges of it.

  5. Is Google Making Us Forgetful? (Not Sure, Let's Look It Up ...

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    A new set of studies in the journal Science raises the question of whether Google affects human memory. Betsy. We have begun to live in a world in which Google (GOOG) helps determine what we ...

  6. Streisand effect - Wikipedia

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    The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

  7. The Microsoft Effect: Will Google Become What It Fears? - AOL

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    Former Apple (NAS: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs once warned Google (NAS: GOOG) co-founder Larry Page that the search giant was dangerously close to becoming another Microsoft (NAS: MSFT) -- that is, a ...

  8. Criticism of Google - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users, [1] censorship of search results and content, its cooperation with the Israeli military on Project Nimbus targeting ...

  9. Sandbox effect - Wikipedia

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    The sandbox effect (or sandboxing) is a theory about the way Google ranks web pages in its index. It is the subject of much debate—its existence has been written about [1] [2] since 2004, [3] but not confirmed, with several statements to the contrary.