The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit considered an expert’s use of Google to obtain support for his opinion. In n Bielskis v. Louisville Ladder, Inc. 663 F3rd 887 (7th Cir. 2011), the Court of Appeals in upholding the exclusion of an expert’s testimony, discussed his use of Google to obtain articles he claims supported his opinion and said,
“After Louisville Ladder moved to exclude his testimony, Mizen supplemented his opinion with several articles that he claimed supported his conclusion. At his deposition, he explained that he located the articles by using the Internet search engine Google and typing in the phrase “brittle fracture.” We think the District Court was within its discretion to conclude that Mizen’s methodology sounded more like the sort of ‘[t]alking off the cuff’ – without data or analysis- that we have repeatedly characterized as insufficient (citation omitted) ” Pg. 894.