For years & years college & university librarians had to struggle with moving students from using Readers Guide to Periodicals to more appropriate indexes. Librarians & faculty had to point out that rarely was Reader's Digest an appropriate source in citations.

There is some wonderful stuff on the internet. Digital Traditions is a good example. There is a lot of garbage. There are many traditional print sources, especially journal indexes & encyclopedias, that are made available at a cost through the internet. Electronic information resources like Lexis/Nexis transformed business & law research well before the internet was around. GUI web interfaces have sure make them easier to use, even though they are still extraordinarily expensive to business customers. The connections to the paid sources are transparent to our students so they frequently don't realize that what they are dealing with is not 'the internet' as most think of it.

No one who understands what they are dealing with should stop using the internet. Anyone seeking information needs to know the difference between what google is searching vs. say Britannica Online or Lexis/Nexis. It's part of the education process that has always been needed, but not always done successfully.