Let me see if I get the point of the article, since no one seriously alleges that Obama was born in Indonesia.
I think the point is, why did Hoover have to google it, why didn’t he search the birth announcements in his own paper? Is it implying the birth announcements were seeded into the record later and weren’t there at the time?
Or maybe it was just simpler for Hoover to google since he could do it from his desk and didn’t have to dig through a bunch of microfilm? If there was any chance the microfilm was altered at the public library, it would be interesting if he would compare his microfilm with what is available at the library, I suppose.