In his Places to Go column for a special issue on the Net Generation, Stephen Downes takes an unexpected trip--to Google. According to Downes, Google epitomizes the essence of the Net Generation. Infinitely searchable and adaptable, Google represents the spirit of a generation raised in the world of the Internet, a generation that adapts technologies and its tools to meet its needs. In the course of Downes's Google search, he soon learns that many of the search results for "Net Generation" are static, paper- or pdf-bound texts. For Downes, this observation serves as a lens by which to offer his own definition of what the Net Generation is.