Granted, I'm okay with whatever works best for teaching the process.
I believe a great deal of people of all ages simply treat Google, and now chatbots, as "answer machines". They grab a hold of something out of the first few results, sometimes it's just the text of the link itself, and that's your answer. No analysis, no critical thinking, no further thought needed.
I feel like search engines and AI have become a form of thought terminating cliche for some. People trust the information presented far more than they should and don't seem to be able to analyze or apply it in a broader context. They double check if a human tells them the sky is blue, but site a Facebook post as gospel even after it's led them to disaster.
I get this is human nature to an extent, but it's also partly the nature of the medium. Something about the internet and computers makes people want to trust that information without deeper analysis. I think that's partly because of how we regard them culturally and we should move away from the unfounded belief that computers do better analysis than humans, faster, more apt to find certain types of small details, but not necessarily better in all contexts. Critical thinking and analysis should be assisted by technology, not replaced by it.
Sitting down, reading, collecting information, processing and analyzing that information, and then writing what you've learned and explaining how it applies in a given context is a skill everyone needs to cultivate no matter how advanced our technology becomes.
EDIT: added some details.