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zerop on March 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: List of cognitive biases

Love the Google effect: the tendency to forget information that can be easily found online.

'Google Effect' seems most common.

ordinary on March 26, 2012 [–]

The Google effect has an inverse too: the tendency to ignore information that can not be easily found online.

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