Search engines 'rewire our memory'. Internet search engines have changed the way that memory works, researchers have claimed. A study from Columbia University suggests that the ability to find almost any information via a few keystrokes on Google could make us less likely to remember things. Researchers believe that we tend to forget information if we are confident that we can find it again. If we think that something will not be easy to find again then we make more effort to remember it.

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