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Think about the sheer amount of information it contains.
"At a discussion of "Is Google Good for History?" here Thursday, there weren't really any firm "No" answers. Even the harshest critic here of Google's historic book digitization project confessed to using it for his research and making valuable finds with the tool."
I asked Google this question and the search results told me that this was the answer. Google says it is good for history; who am I to uestion?
The Internet – aka Google – is a valuable research tool, however – and that is a great big "HOWEVER" – anyone can put anything on the internet whether it be actual fact or not. And therein lies the problem!
Remember the Facebook saga of the shunned little girl who wound up committing suicide? The "friend" who shunned her turned out to be another cheerleaders mother who wanted to get even for her daughter not getting on the squad. If that can happen on facebook, then you can multiply the fraud attempts tenfold for google . . . . . .
Let the reader beware . . . .
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
Google is designed to display the most popular articles based on your search, simply because those articles that are more popular tend to be more correct and valid, otherwise it would be corrected immediately.
As long as Google doesn't decide to have a bit of a spring clean at some point in the future, it could be a very valuabe tool for looking back at our recent history especially the mainstream media pages. As has been mentioned above, how accurate it is could be debatable but then how much faith do we put in our media to be honest and not put their own spin on things anyway?