Google is dumbing down education - Media Studies lecturer

Is it really appropriate for a professor of media studies to crticise Google and complain that it is responsible for dulling "students’ sense of curiosity"? What has her subject, let alone her University, ever done for intellectual debate?

I thoroughly agree with the sentiment that Wikipedia is a poor source of authoritative information, but to taint Google with the same brush is foolish: Wikipedia aims to answer all questions, often badly - Google simply acts as a gateway to the information available on the internet. I can say with much certainty, a student of even a half decent standard will easily be able to discern between what is authoritative information and what is not; with opinions almost as sensational as her surname Tara really shoud have used Google recently to find out that it would probably allow her students to access most of the 200 printed extracts she provided to her students.