Google goggles

One of the pernicious consequences of the internet is that people are free to make sweeping statements to large audiences without actually substantiating their claims, notions, or repetitions of urban myths. Such poor construction of a position usually results from a combination of ideology, prejudice, and ignorance. The first two are difficult to address, but ignorance can be remedied by some basic self-education, and specifically, by research. To this end, the most popular internet mechanism is to use the well-known search engine, Google. The term "Google goggles" is an alliterative/consonant reference to the process of improving the clarity of one's understanding by the simple trick of typing some key words into a search engine - and learning!