I think the Internet is a great tool for looking for information because it saves us time going to the library like Merlin looking for potion recipes that we might not even find. The amount of knowledge out there is very distracting and for the most part some of that information we may not even be able to use in our lives, but Google still immediately offers it to us on a platter of gold. People who think that Google or the Internet, as a whole, are distracting are completely right. The Internet is distracting, but ultimately it all depends on the decision we make when an advertisement appears on our screens and whether we should click on it and/or ignore it and continue with our original task or purpose that made us sit down and open our laptop or desktop computer . Google can make us smarter because it gives us all this information and it's up to us to learn it if we want