Reading Report 4

Google is by far the most popular way to search for information. Like the article says, students no longer want to dig through books and search through the library to find a small piece of good information. We would much rather type in a few words and let the search engines work there magic and give us all the info. The word “Infobesity” is a very good choice of word on how students are today, we want a lot of information and we want it fast. I definetly do not agree with the one proffessor in the article that believed research should be a slow and long proccess of finding information. That is for the old days when it was harder to get information to a person so quickly. With todays technology, it should be easy to find a bunch on information and can only help to better our persuit on knowledge. In my opinion, it would be a great idea to make the journal databases google-ized, so like stated in the article, we can get a lot of “healthier” information instead of the large amount of false of bad information from Google. Libraries should have their own easy to search, search engines that are not only easy to use to find the right info, but also easy to find. Many students to not even know about these databases provided by the schools. The readability to use and ease of information will definetly become popular with students if they know in fact that they are getting good reliable information without getting confused on how to find what they are looking for. I also found it very interesting that these database companies are part to blame since they too are a buisness and are fighting to get the buisness of the university, which often means hampering the amount of good info. Hopefully we can figure out a way to get students to use these databases so they can have valuable and correct information.