The kids may be able to fly around the web at ludicrous speed, but if a basic search can't find what they want, they could have a tough time digging up more information.

The next time your child hands you your cartoon butt in a battle on Acme Arsenal, you can take comfort in the little tyke's relative inability to do the kind of critical, deeper thinking needed to make the most of searching the web.

Maybe that's a petty statement, but after you've had your Foghorn Leghorn handed back to you in extra crispy for the tenth time in a row, you'll take a moral victory over the Google Generation.

Resource Shelf said that Google Generation is a myth anyway. While the young people growing up with high speed Internet and rapid web search, a research paper from the CIBER research team at University College London said the kids have issues when the first page of the search results doesn't have what they want.

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