Click here, then click “listen”.

I can’t wait for this to catch on and people to compose entire songs from google translate… make it happen you creative talents!

The reason this battle started was because once upon a time I wrote a blog about “Hairy German girls”. This blog of course had to do with the funny fact that in Germany they sell womens deodorant with razor blades, which led me to the obvious conclusion that German girls must be hairy. Of course since this is the internet, the main keywords that brought people to Hello Liefje were people searching for “hairy german girls” or “hairy women”.

Today I would like to triumphantly say that the trend has been broken!

Hairy women have been knocked off their throne by people who also hate Heros of Newerth!! Wooohoo!! There are more gamers than people with hairy women fetishes now reading my website. Congratulations!

But the internet always delivers and of course the 2nd most common search term was Jonah Falcon, the man with the worlds largest penis. But the first one is non-sexual, so that’s a win for me!

The answer of the report was no, but google is indeed changing the way people think. The report surveyed 895 technology stakeholders via the internet. About 76 percent of respondents said that Google will not make us stupid.

“Google allows us to be more creative in approaching problems and more integrative in our thinking. We spend less time trying to recall and more time generating solutions”

- Paul Jones of ibiblio.org at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

This survey was sparked by an article published in The Atlantic by Nicholas Carr. According to Carr;

The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating “like clockwork.” Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating “like computers.” But the changes, neuroscience tells us, go much deeper than metaphor. Thanks to our brain’s plasticity, the adaptation occurs also at a biological level.

I don’t know if google is making us stupid, but it sure is convenient. My spelling is probably worse than when I was 14 years old and I find myself googling things like “what is the cutest kitten in the world?”

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