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Haha! But really I LOVE the Google machine. Jeez, the stuff you can find now instantaneously while sitting on your couch at home. You once had to trudge down to the library to open musty old books and deal with musty old librarians.

You can now even get academic research reported verbatim in academic journals. That stuff used to be subscription only. I confess to not knowing exactly how much Google accesses and how that body of information differs from the expensive databases supplied to citizens by public libraries, but egad it is still wonderful even if limited.
I'm with you. I get the Google Twitch all the time, at a moment's notice, if some question, with or without merit, pops into my head. Honestly, I have so much to criticize about modern technology, but I say this without exaggeration, I believe I am a better person because of the Internet.