Google isn’t a location, it’s a way of searching. Saying “from Google” is a bit like quoting a source in an essay and writing in brackets afterwards “from a book or journal the librarian helped me find”.
The reader needs to know which book or journal. Both so they can find the quote and see it in context for themselves if they wish, but also because that information can help the reader understand the bias of the author (there is always a bias), the veracity of the claim (if there’s a claim), the quality of the research behind the claim (if there has been research), and so on.
For example, you introduced Neil Peart to us as journalist and writer. In fact he was a drummer and lyricist for a rock band. (He also wrote memoirs, I understand). I haven’t read his memoirs, but I remember his lyrics from the bands albums in the mid 70s because my aunt (my mother’s youngest sibling, my mum being the oldest of a large family, making my aunt more akin to a cousin to me) was a huge fan at the time and I heard the lyrical themes repeatedly. They were right wing, and in my opinion, in quality, very juvenile.
For example:
The Trees
There is unrest in the Forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the Maples
(And they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the Oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the Oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the Maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?
There is trouble in the Forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the Maples scream ‘Oppression!’
And the Oaks, just shake their heads
So the Maples formed a Union
And demanded equal rights
‘The Oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more Oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw…
