Google is undoubtedly best search engine, because it acts as the best filter for results, eliminating the most number of irrelevant search options in all the available search engines. As a result, it has revolutionized the way we search for information, crafting out a new way for research completely. Some people have speculated that Google may become the world's next manifestation of libraries, and may even oust libraries out of the information gateway completely. I feel that while Google brings us much benefit and convenience, libraries must still remain in their place and not be replaced completely by Google.

With an automatic search that takes less than a second, Google obviously provides a much faster search for information as compared to the arduous hours of research for literature materials at a neighbourhood or regional library. However, with this accelerated access to information, our work is completed much faster than before and even more in-depth research can be executed, in turn benefiting the society much more than before. In addition, more work and research can be done in the same period of time, resulting in an increased net work and research. This stimulates society to improve at an expoential speed thus we, as members of society can reap the benefits that this will bring. However, some critics argue that searching for information with Google instead of going to the library would lead to the decay of virtues such as patience, causing us to be extremely impatient and complain for even a few seconds of waiting. They argue that the long and tiring search for information in the library trains our perseverance and this cannot be trained using Google's almost instataneous search results. Well, take a deep breath and rethink about the significance of patience. Firstly, back in ancient China, some academics travelled across cities and territories just to search for one particular book, suffering dehydration and starvation across deserts, with some people even dying along the way. When such information was housed in libraries, people welcomed the decision, rather than arguing that people are less trained in enduring starvation and dehydration just to search for one particular book. This was because they viewed that society could progress faster by housing books in libraries rather than in some secluded area which people paid their lives for just to find that book and they welcomed it as a convenience. From this, we can understand the unchanging fact that society is constantly improving. Just as when books should be centralised in libraries when society was improving them, books in libraries should inevitably be digitalised as society improves towards the future.
Secondly, from the scenario above, we can also understand that some virtues would become obselete at least in the field of information as society progresses. Just as enduring dehydration and starvation is now totally obselete in searching for information, patience would inevitably lose its significance when searching for information as society continues to progress. To put it in another way, patience as a virtue in the field of information was needed when literature was housed in libraries because it was compatible with the arduous process needed to search for relevant material.

In addition, the Internet transcends physical boundaries and Google which is a major proponent on the internet, serves the same purpose. It would be impossible to travel to the world's largest Library of Congress for a casual visit to the library, but we can search for the same type and order to information available in the Library of Congress without making a physical visit there. Hence, Google benefits us greatly by providing information that is not commonly available easily to us, as compared to the arduous hours of information searching at local libraries which will not yield as much information as Google does.

Lastly, the internet provides the most up to date information, unlike the library which provides information that is not updated. In the library, information is shelved up and left there to be browsed by visitors, rarely removed for ages. This brings no benefit to researchers who wish to retrieve the latest information about their research area. To these researchers, the Internet is a more viable option because it filters out results that are outdated and serve little or no significance.

Nevertheless, the library still deserves its place in the future, because library materials are undoubtedly much more reliable than internet information. Literature in library are manually selected, browsed through and vetted by a panel of librarians before they are allowed to take their place on library shelves, while information available straight from the Internet are mostly anonymous. These people may contribute false material onto the Internet, sometimes without them even knowing it. As a result, these false information is passed on and we would receive the wrong information.

In conclusion, although Google will make its way to become the world's premier information giant, libraries still cannot be overtaken and has its significance. Therefore, it deserves to stay on in the future.