Google and the Death of Knowledge
Google Search figured largely in my use of the internet right from the beginning. As an MS-DOS command-line user I was used to entering terse phrases such as "English county summits" or "longest suspension bridges" or even "full-contact origami" to retrieve that legendary college application that I had come across in pre-internet days. Why are there black bits in my ice-cream? However it took a number of years before I appreciated the true power of Google Search. One day, on an idle whim, I typed "Why are there black bits in my ice-cream?" and was amazed to receive a list of articles all answering that very question. (I was also impressed to learn that my four-for-a-pound Magnum lookalikes used real vanilla flavouring - a childhood of choc-ices, raspberry mivvis and arctic rolls had been noticeably free of crushed vanilla-pods). (I was less impressed by Google's lack of a sense of humour as none of the top ten answers to "Why do birds