Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Google has now been around for years. It's been a great help in many, many areas. People use it for virtually everything. It has become the mecca of all search engines. But, at the same time, many people wonder whether or not it is REALLY helping us. I mean, it could be said that it has so much information, that it is impossible for it not to help, but the means by which the information is gathered might be a bit too easy. In the early days, people spent hours upon hours looking for information that could now be found within minutes. The advancements in technology are amazing, but one must wonder if they are truly helping society as a whole.
Personally, I believe that Google, while being a reputable search engine and a great way to get information, is definitely changing our ways of thinking. It's making us more dependent on the internet. While that could be a good thing, it's obvious that most people that go on the internet for information expect it to be quick and easy, which is not the way to go about learning and researching. Back in the day, it was more often than not that a person truly got something out of the information they looked at, but now it's just people looking between the lines for keywords and just writing a paper after reading articles for about 5 minutes. Instead of reading, people just skim through, which is not all Google's fault, as there are many other places on the internet people can go to do that, but Google is the main source of it. People go on Google to find information, and they find it by searching keywords. Our brains have now started to comprise of a more "dumb-it-down" type mentality, and Google is the main reason. It's not completely our fault, but technology's made things a bit too easy. It's unfair to those of previous generations that we can spend an hour on an assignment that would have taken them a day. It's advancement, but, in reality, it wasn't needed, because now people don't really get anything out of the assignments unless they do them right and don't take a shortcut. So, in conclusion, I do believe that Google has, in fact, made us stupid.