Ever since Google has been around all the kind of information that we could possibly think of has been at our service, just hanging in the online world just waiting for us to look for it. These days no matter what question we have or problem, you are dealing with Google is the first “person” we turn to for support. But are we really smarter having Google by our side?

New study has shown that Google is just giving us the illusion of being smarter, when in reality we are not.
A research that has been published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, has talked about the fact that the infamous search engine is just helping us achieve the answers we want without any effort and we are not really gaining anything from the information we obtain, stated the lead author of the study and psychology expert, Matthew Fisher from the Yale University.

The days when we used to ask our friends or parens for information have long gone by and even if you ask them, their reply would be “ask Google”.

Parts of the experiments implied for the participants of the study to ask Google “How does a zipper work ?” and after, they were asked questions to see how they comprehended the information they obtained.

The results showed that the ones who have searched for their answers on the web actually considered themselves to posses more knowledge than another group of people which discussed subjects that had nothing to do with what they had just searched for, on Google.

Moreover, surprisingly enough Google seems to have boosted their intellectual confidence and felt that their brain was more dynamic than the ones who were in the group that haven’t searched for information online.Even if Google hasn’t given them the correct answer to their question and they couldn’t find the information they needed, they felt much more informed than the group who hadn’t googled for answers.

It just proves that the internet can play mind games on our brain, inducing us the feeling of knowing what we actually don’t. The brain does no longer need to store information and keep it in there, as long as there is Google, who works like our external memory storage.

This is what people have to understand, that Google owns the information, not us and we have become very comfortable with this concept at a subconscious level.People are living with the illusion that the information found on the internet is stored also in their brain, when in reality that is not true.
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