is google making us stupid?

Is google making us stupid? My answer would have to be not at all. Whenever I need to find an answer to something I go directly to google. Times have changed and like we discussed in class today, you don't go directly to a book in the library to find the answer to something. I don't feel that google is making us stupid. If anything, is it just making us lazy. America has become too reliant on google for everything when it comes to finding out information. Google has made it very easy for us to find the sources that we need to find the answer to our questions, but it has also become very distracting. I know for myself anyway, that when I search for something on google that has to do with an assignment, nine times out of ten I end up on a completely different search track. I can go from looking up the birthday of our current president to checking my email just because of the fact that it is so user-friendly and a person can change searches within seconds,depending on the speed of your computer that is. Like discussed in the article, searching on google can make a person unfocused.The internet is being blamed in this article for "chipping away the author's capacity for concentration and contemplation". I completely agree with this statement because instead of having to concentrate on what you're reading and comprehend it, you can just go on to spark notes and read the explanation of what you didn't understand.It doesn't take much effort to read through a book anymore and it's a shame.Google may be making us lazy, but no one can deny that is a very helpful source. I am very thankful for google and I do not agree with the speculations that google is not a positive resource.