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People need to be taught how to use the internet. There are too many noobs that just gobble up whatever they want to hear. It's already a lot safer to say "if y

• wutbrodo 10y ago
  I go back and forth between thinking this is something that needs to be taught and something that boils down to basic critical thinking (which means that teaching "how to use the Internet" would be more or less useless). I know that sounds a little dramatic, but it was obvious to me _as a child_ using the Internet that the search term had an effect on the results beyond the searcher's intent. This should be clear to anyone who realizes that the engine is fundamentally matching text. Yes, there are optimizations Google has since made that would probably benefit people to know about to make them understand the manner in which information is being delivered to them, and it's not at all unreasonable for people to be unaware of these already. But part of me is skeptical that this will have any non-trivial effect on how people consume information on the Internet. i.e., it's not an ignorance problem, it's a "fundamental common sense" problem.