At 08:02 AM 12/11/2006 +0000, you wrote: >"If it's on the Internet it must be true" syndrome, I'm afraid. Coupled with >the fact that Google Images is very definitely not their (Google's) finest >hour. > >I was never more horrified than listening to a radio program from a primary >school extolling use of the internet for class work - and at least one pupil >effectively saying "I know I can believe the facts I find on the Internet" ! And further to this, see the recent tragedy in southern Oregon in which a highly tech-oriented traveler followed the suggestion of Google's map-route service instead of the local advice he had received, took a side road in the mountains as a short cut, and got lost and stuck in the snow. He died, and his family almost did before they were finally found. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA