2002 June 5, Jim Sculley, “Re: Not So Exceptional Exceptions?”, in comp.lang.java.programmer[1] (Usenet):
> Of course, someone had to research this ;-). Of course. At least *I* had the good sense to keep my Googleitis secret...in this one instance.
2003 June 26, P e t e F a g e r l i n, “Re: URT sucks?”, in alt.mountain-bike[2] (Usenet):
Apparently you are suffering from Googlitis coupled with a dose of assumptionitis.
2005 July 8, TOliver, “Re: "Freeze motherstickers, this is a.."”, in alt.folklore.urban[3] (Usenet):
Folks cut down shotguns to make them handy and easy to handle, easy to store under a car seat and more easily concealable. Believe it or not, rely of googleitis, or better yet, inquire of folks over on rec.guns where they spend hours rehashing intricacies of barrel shortening and its alterations of ballistics, point of aim, and shot pattern.
2011, Carol A. Leibiger, ““Google Reigns Triumphant”?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative, Situated Information Literacy Instruction”, in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, volume 30, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN:
Overreliance on Google, the most widely used search engine in the world (Vine 2004), affects undergraduates so uniformly that it has been given a name, Googlitis (Urban Dictionary 2010a). […] The discussion further proposes that faculty and librarians collaborate to intervene to prevent the development of Googlitis by creating and facilitating active, situated, problem- and project-based learning assignments that promote effective information-finding and critical-thinking skills […].
2012, William O. Scheeren, The Hidden Web: A Sourcebook, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 98:
Librarians in all types of libraries have little to fear in the use of the Invisible Web; their challenge is the increasing use of unchecked online resources such as the widespread “Googleitis.” It is not educationally sound to think about replacing all other library resources with unfettered Internet access.
2019, Rachel C. Swanson, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose, New York, NY: FaithWords, →ISBN, page unknown:
Be careful of Google, though. You can diagnose yourself as having every dreadful disease on the planet with just one sniffle. If I'm being honest, my husband had to save me from being carried away by Googleitis more than once.
