The document discusses how over-reliance on Google for information is negatively impacting human memory and intelligence. A survey found that 36% of people use Google instead of trying to remember things themselves, and 40% of those over 45 do the same. This is eroding long-term memory and "digital amnesia." 25% immediately forget what they look up. Using Google makes people think they are smarter than they are but their knowledge is dependent on what Google returns. Experts warn that passive internet searching does not build strong, lasting memories like active recall does.

1. HOW DOES
GOOGLE MAKE
YOU STUPID?
Article

2. Publication
 In newspaper NATURAL NEWS (The
world’s top news source on natural
health).
 Thursday, October 08, 2015 by: L.J.
Devon, Staff Writer.
 Tags: Google dependency, long-term
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term_memory_stupidity.htmlry, stupidity

3. Article
 NaturalNews) The Internet is quickly becoming
the brain and storage bank for the human
race. Instead of trying to remember a fact or
tidbit with their own brains, people quickly turn
to Google for answers. People rely on Google
so much that the search engine is measurably
destroying their very own long-term memory
capabilities. An international survey led by
Russia's Kaspersky Labs has proven that
Google-dependence is rotting people's brains
and giving them false perceptions of
intelligence.

4. Article
 The international survey, which quizzed 6000
respondents, found that 36 percent of people
go to Google for information instead of trying
to remember it on their own. It gets worse with
age: 40 percent of adults over age 45
automatically rely on Google searches for so-
called knowledge.

5. Article
 The search results favored by Google and
indexed as top priority are slowly becoming all
that people know. People no longer trust their own
memories and their own ability to retain
information. This "Google dependency" is
dangerous because the human brain is slowly
adapting to relying merely on external answers
(that Google arranges for them). As people
depend on Google to hold all the answers, the
brain shrinks and the ability to learn dissolves
because retaining information is no longer
prioritized.

6. We forget the information as soon
as we retrieve it, always expecting it
to be there
 The most shocking result of the survey was
that 25 percent of people immediately forget
the information they look up, right after looking
it up. A Google-dependent brain assumes that
information will always be there, so the
memory is quickly forgotten. Psychologists
warn that this kind of behavior is destroying
people's long-term memories, contributing to
"digital amnesia."

7. Article
 People doubt the accuracy of their own memory
and rely on quick Google searches for
confirmation. People want the right answer as
quickly as possible, leading to impatient thinking
that depends on an external source. There's really
no incentive to retain information if the brain
believes it can always access the answers quickly
and without much effort.
"The Internet is such a powerful environment,
where you can enter any question, and you
basically have access to the world's knowledge at
your fingertips," said lead researcher Matthew
Fisher, of Yale University.

8. "It becomes easier to confuse your
own knowledge with this external
source. When people are truly on
their own, they may be wildly
inaccurate about how much they
know and how dependent they are
on the Internet."

9. Google makes people think they
are smarter than they really are
 Google dependency is also making people think they
are smarter than they really are. Just because people
can find information quickly on their smartphones
does not mean they are intelligent at all. Experiments
published by the American Psychological Association
found that people who rely on the Internet for
information perceive themselves as more intelligent
than people who retain their own information. Even
when they couldn't find what they were looking for
online, they believed their knowledge was superior to
those in the control group. The Google-dependent
searchers even thought their brains were more active
than controls — but they weren't. Their minds were
dependently searching, not actively engaging past
memory.

10. Article
 Dr. Maria Wimber of the University of Birmingham's
School of Psychology says, "Our brain appears to
strengthen a memory each time we recall it and at the
same time forget irrelevant memories that are
distracting us. Past research has repeatedly
demonstrated that actively recalling information is a
very efficient way to create a permanent memory."
She concludes, "In contrast, passively repeating
information (e.g. by repeatedly looking it up on the
Internet) does not create a solid, lasting memory trace
in the same way. Based on this research, it can be
argued that the trend to look up information before
even trying to recall it prevents the build-up of long-
term memories."

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12. Summary
 Google now known as human brain. People
use google instead of using their mind. An
easy way to get their answer without using
their mind , but this is destroying their long
term memories.
 According to Russia’s Kaspersky lab survey.
They take quiz of 6000 people ,36% of which
conducted internet for information rather than
to remember answer on their own capability
and 25% forgets the answers immediately right
after quiz.

13. Summary
 40 to 45 age group use google for so called
knowledge. People start losing trust in their
abilities and memory. Using google usually our
brain get shrink and slowly lose ability to learn,
which can cause “Digital Amnesia” destroying
of long term memory.
 Google make us think that just searching on
our smartphones we are smarter than people
who really have knowledge.

14. conclusion
 According to Dr. Maria Wimber
 Our brain get strengthen each time we recall a
memory and we forget things which are not
needed. Active recalling can make permanent
memory.
 But repeating to looking things on internet
does create a solid Memory. We forget every
thing which we have googled.