Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

The students I teach at the University of Montana often show up with a powerful assumption: If there is some piece of information out there, Google can find it. It’s an understandable belief for 19-year-olds who have grown up in a world where ubiquitous connection to the Internet and easy access to vast reams of webpages is expected.

But for all those Wikipedia pages and Wayback Machines, the...