> But even if their search phrases are good, they do not click on the links. They just read the excerpt Google provided them. If the answer is not in the excerp

> But even if their search phrases are good, they do not click on the links. They just read the excerpt Google provided them. If the answer is not in the excerpts, they give up. I have seen this behavior A LOT with my middle school aged child and friends here in the USA. It baffles me and I try to encourage clicking through as well as evaluating sources whenever it comes up. A lot of stuff that isn't a big deal if you don't have kids becomes a big deal when you do, because you can no longer say "any intelligent person will just critically think and not (for example) blindly trust the AI generated Q&As on the top of google search results, even when they occasionally give subtly wrong or even blatantly absurd info" -- because kids are still developing and don't yet have good critical thinking skills. Yes, they need to learn those skills, but that takes time, years even, and in the meantime, Google becomes a pipeline for misinformation for them. Between this and the way they abuse their Google Classroom and Google Chromebook products to push addictive feeds (Youtube shorts) in the schools, Google is the new Joe Camel and I regret ever having worked for them.