The study, published by the International Journal of Communication, described the pitfalls of the trust students place in Google and the search engine’s rankings. A recent study, however, shows that you young people may not be as savvy as you think when it comes to online research. You already know all about the technology gap, and probably have little faith in your instructors’ web know-how when compared to your own. The main criteria students looked at when choosing which sites to find their information on were where those sites were ranked in Google and other popular search engines like Yahoo!.