Google effect

Google effect - inability to remember important information because of the ease of looking online. Article “Google effect” in English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Google effect”, its content was written by 50 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 126 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 614 times in English Wikipedia and cited 815 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #29765 in November 2013
• Global: #81153 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24762 in January 2013
• Global: #49844 in January 2013

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Kesan Google		37.0213
2	Greek (el) Ψηφιακή αμνησία		29.4331
3	English (en) Google effect		29.3116
4	French (fr) Effet Google		26.2167
5	Indonesian (id) Efek Google		25.2424
6	Armenian (hy) Գուգլի էֆեկտ		24.5324
7	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		24.509
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект Google		23.4564
9	German (de) Google-Effekt		22.9555
10	Arabic (ar) تأثير جوجل		22.9042

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Google effect" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Google effect		371 289
2	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		60 953
3	Russian (ru) Цифровая амнезия		21 040
4	Chinese (zh) 谷歌效应		10 770
5	German (de) Google-Effekt		7 953
6	Japanese (ja) グーグル効果		6 826
7	Arabic (ar) تأثير جوجل		3 814
8	French (fr) Effet Google		3 418
9	Turkish (tr) Google etkisi		2 938
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hiệu ứng Google		2 352

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Google effect" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Google effect		2 738
2	Japanese (ja) グーグル効果		184
3	Russian (ru) Цифровая амнезия		133
4	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		110
5	Vietnamese (vi) Hiệu ứng Google		107
6	French (fr) Effet Google		94
7	Chinese (zh) 谷歌效应		66
8	German (de) Google-Effekt		65
9	Korean (ko) 구글 효과		62
10	Arabic (ar) تأثير جوجل		32

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Google effect" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Google effect		50
2	Russian (ru) Цифровая амнезия		13
3	Arabic (ar) تأثير جوجل		8
4	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		7
5	French (fr) Effet Google		7
6	Chinese (zh) 谷歌效应		7
7	Persian (fa) اثر گوگل		5
8	Turkish (tr) Google etkisi		5
9	Vietnamese (vi) Hiệu ứng Google		5
10	Greek (el) Ψηφιακή αμνησία		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Google effect" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 谷歌效应		1
2	Arabic (ar) تأثير جوجل		0
3	German (de) Google-Effekt		0
4	Greek (el) Ψηφιακή αμνησία		0
5	English (en) Google effect		0
6	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		0
7	Persian (fa) اثر گوگل		0
8	French (fr) Effet Google		0
9	Galician (gl) Efecto Google		0
10	Armenian (hy) Գուգլի էֆեկտ		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Google effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Google effect		614
2	Persian (fa) اثر گوگل		185
3	Spanish (es) Efecto Google		3
4	Japanese (ja) グーグル効果		3
5	German (de) Google-Effekt		2
6	Armenian (hy) Գուգլի էֆեկտ		2
7	French (fr) Effet Google		1
8	Indonesian (id) Efek Google		1
9	Korean (ko) 구글 효과		1
10	Turkish (tr) Google etkisi		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تأثير جوجل
de	German Google-Effekt
el	Greek Ψηφιακή αμνησία
en	English Google effect
es	Spanish Efecto Google
fa	Persian اثر گوگل
fr	French Effet Google
gl	Galician Efecto Google
hy	Armenian Գուգլի էֆեկտ
id	Indonesian Efek Google
ja	Japanese グーグル効果
ko	Korean 구글 효과
ms	Malay Kesan Google
ru	Russian Цифровая амнезия
tr	Turkish Google etkisi
uk	Ukrainian Ефект Google
vi	Vietnamese Hiệu ứng Google
zh	Chinese 谷歌效应

Best Rank

English: #24762 01.2013

Global: #49844 01.2013

Best Rank

English: #29765 11.2013

Global: #81153 11.2013

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