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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2008/01/googlegen.aspx Traditional-age college students are not competent in searching Web information, according to a new report from the British group JISC. The "Google Generation" study argues that
although young people demonstrate an ease and familiarity with computers, they rely on the most basic search tools and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to asses the information that they find on the web.

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