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Searching for the Google Effect on People's Memory

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Science, 333 (6040): 277 (Jul 15, 2011)
DOI: 10.1126/science.333.6040.277

Abstract

In four cleverly designed experiments reported online this week in Science, psychologists explore how the Internet may be changing the way people handle information. The results, the researchers say, confirm a growing belief that people are using the Internet as a personal memory bank: the so-called Google effect. What surprised the researchers most was not people's reliance on online information but their ability to find it.

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