Is Google Making Me Stupid?

No.

At worst, Google is Apple's worst nightmare, but in no way I believe Google has any negative correlation with my intelligence.

If anything, Google centralizes how I work.  Some features like GMail and Blogger and Maps are nicer solutions, while other features like Scholar and Picasa and Reader are at best niche items.  Rather than having to buy a map book every year from the bookstore, here's Google Maps showing me how to go. If there's something in Spanish I need to translate, Google can translate it for me.

While it could be true that the above can attribute to laziness, I say otherwise - it's not laziness or stupidity.  It's productivity.  Have we checked our mail? uploaded new pictures? read the news? (Checked Google+?) Well, then let's have something else to do.  Just because the old way is the usually established way, that does not make it the only way.  For example, a lot of other people log in to MyFSU the old, logging in on a browser way.  Instead, I just open Microsoft Outlook and ding I got new mail.

If anything, Google gives me a lot of choices.  Although, if anything, Bing might make me stupid - with all their suggestions and all the link-directing and no more thinking on my side.