Re: Is google making us lazy?
can't really say about the lazy part... but it's certainly making some of us more incompetent. In the academic world, there's a debate about computing literacy (which is on the rise) versus information literacy (which is on the decline) because people tend to use superficial and easy search tools rather than an express effort to do research, evaluate results, organize / prioritize by relevance and quality of results etc.
So, I'd say that up to a certain extent, the superficial use of search engines like Google is making some people not apply their critical thinking skills - which perhaps can be interpreted as making them lazy.