It's not Google, its you.

This Nicholas Carr character believes that the Internet is the cause of his apparent loss of concentration. He believes that due to his web surfing which retrieves information immediately, he has lost the patience to sit down and look for information through the pages of books. Google has caused him to rely on the Internet and is hindering society as a whole. Yea...ok Nicholas Carr.

It's not Google, it's you. Trust me. Nicholas Carr is a victim of the changing times. Before Internet the regular routine for research would be to sit in the library and flip through pages until you got the information you needed and then you would go to another book, and another, and another. It was somewhat time consuming and didn't happen instantly. That was the routine. That's what he was used to. That's what people did in their spare time, they read. Now the internet comes along. Suddenly people are able to access information with a simple click of the mouse. Instant access. No more time consuming research. "Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be dome in minutes." And who here thinks this is a bad thing??...Right, no one, because it's not a bad thing. With this new "invention" Carr is thrown into a new world where research methods are different. This is no reason to blame your lack of concentration on the Internet, just because you're not used to it.

When I was younger we used both the internet and books for information. For each research report you would need at least 1 or 2 book sources and the rest could be internet. I never had a problem looking through books for information. In fact when I love to read. I've never had a problem concentrating on my reading and it's still something I love to do. Yea, I take the occasional break but that's nothing out of the ordinary. My concentration is still the same on whatever I'm reading. GOogle is a good thing.