Search Engines – Are they doing more harm than good???

Krish: “Hey Gaurav!!! We need to do our assignment and the deadline is tomorrow”

Gaurav: “Why do you worry Krish? We have Google na. We can finish it anytime”.

 

Ram: “Arre yaar 10 questions aaj raat tak submit karne hain. Pata nahin kaise honge”.

Shyam: “Abe Yahoo hai na. Itni chinta kyun karta hai. 5 min mein saare answer mil jayenge. Chill maar yaar”

 

Teacher: “All you people have to submit a write up on Latest Development in Financial Market in the next class”

Students among themselves: “Not a big deal. It hardly takes 10 min to search a project or write-ups from net and then copy paste”

"What do all the above mentioned scenarios in common?" It’s the search engines courtesy latest technology. But seriously speaking have we ever wondered what they are doing to the current generation and what could be its implications in the future. It’s so easy to flow with the technology and go for the easiest route, not knowing about its implications. Search engines – undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions of our generations (It can be gauged from the number of hits in a day they generate). It has been such a revolution that one can get any data with a click of the mouse. But with it we tend to neglect its implications on us. Have we ever wondered how much harm it is doing to the current generation? We all are becoming so much dependent on search engines that we have stopped working hard to get our results. Earlier there were times when we would refer all the books for any assignments or run or grey cells everywhere to come out with some projects. But nowadays as soon as we get anything we go for the simplest route. We are not even bothered to come out with new ideas or refer a book. There are so many of the examples but I would like to quote a few of them:

1. When we get any project or assignment, we search for them in the net and then directly copy paste them.
2. Whenever we get any code error or system error, then instead of solving them we look out for answer on the net.
3. Infact we have become so much reliant on the search engines, that many a times we are not even bothered to type the correct spelling. We leave it to the search engines to get the correct spellings.

These are examples that our generation is becoming dependent on technology without knowing the consequences. It’s always advised not to become so much reliant on something but look what we have done to us. I am not telling that search engines are not useful but look what implications it can have in the new future. I would just propose that next time you want something then just try all the alternatives before using these tools. Let you control them than being controlled by them.