Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google

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Reading Into the Future: Competence for the 21st Century (2012, background): “Search engines such as Google and Bing present searchers with millions of sources in seconds, based on opaque popularity and relevance algorithms, with the consequence that readers frequently rely on the first few sources presented (Griffiths & Brophy, 2005; M. Smith, Gertz, Alvarez, & Lurie, 2000).”
Relational Reasoning and Its Manifestations in the Educational Context: a Systematic Review of the Literature (2013, background): “…search engines like Google or Bing can encourage students to deal with information in a piecemeal or superficial way (Fast and Campbell 2004; Griffiths and Brophy 2005), while relational reasoning may counteract this tendency by allowing learners to process material more deeply and to…”
First Comes Love, Then Comes Google: An Investigation of Uncertainty Reduction Strategies and Self-Disclosure in Online Dating (2011, background): “…experience may also be more familiar with search engines such as Google and thus more likely to use strategies that include Googling—a common information-seeking strategy in other Internet contexts (Griffiths, 2003; Griffiths & Brophy, 2005)—to verify others’ profile information or disclosures.”