Students Give Too Much Credit To Google Search Results

July 28, 2010 – 9:46 am

According to a survey among students, these students are giving too much credit to Google search results and would think nothing about clicking on the top search results. You know, from a search engine marketing point of view, the top results don’t mean they are the best.

The funny thing is that these students thought that websites with domains that end with .gov, .edu and .org are more credible than others. Well, .gov and .edu are supposed to but .org could be registered by anyone. Even I have a .org website which I manage for an organization.

When I taught my mother, a senior citizen, to use the computer, and the first thing I taught her was to search the web using Google, and I chose Google because its homepage is bare and not as distracting, I also reminded my mother to not simply click on whatever results that pop up on the front page but to go through the list first before choosing which page to open.

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