It might have been this op-ed piece from the NY Times:

OPINION   | March 26, 2006
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/opinion/26tenner.html?ex=1144213200&en=0a1bc989fbb245c0&ei=5070&emc=eta1>Op-Ed 
Contributor:  Searching for Dummies
By EDWARD TENNER
Are search engines making today's students dumber?

Alec McLane

At 09:59 AM 3/29/2006, Lou Judson wrote:
>I'm sorry I did not save a link to something I read recently about some 
>kind of test or survey that indicated kids who use the internet can only 
>find things with search engines, not with boook and brains... I do not 
>assume this meant discrimination, rather use of resources if not organized 
>by algorithms. If I find it I'll post it, if not then this is just one of 
>those "I read it on the net" messages...
>
>Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
>415-883-2689
>
>On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Karl Miller wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Lou Judson wrote:
>>
>>>On the other hand, kids these days are able to search but barely to
>>>reason...
>>
>>I assume you mean the ability to discriminate? How does one tell the good
>>from the bad and how do you tell what is "real" and what is not in the
>>digital world.

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