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I tell people 90% of IT (and development I assume) is knowing what questions to ask, where to ask those questions, and how to interpret the answers. It's like the search for the ultimate question in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As for Google, I think it's getting less useful, so the days of saying "just google it" are gone.
"Have you asked the clanker yet?"
Most of my search process prior to LLM was querying google with keywords and specific phrases, clicking through several of the first page links that are from reputable sources, reading all of that, synthesizing an answer. Now that google has completed its enshittification of search, it's index is gamed both from the SEO grifters and from inside with them making search worse because it ultimately leads to more ad impressions. The quality of those first page links is directly related to how much the stink of money the topic has.
I now pay for search with kagi (not an ad, swear) so that incentives are properly aligned. I get very useful first page links again because I can lens the search to exclude a lot of the SEO shit sites or only return academic sources. And I also use their robot assistant now for many searches because it can synthesize good summaries and good gists of topics from good source links. Prompted to always cite shit so I can always verify the clanker's bullshit, but trust has been getting higher lately as the models get better.
At some point we will end up with a lmgtfy.com but lmpalfy.com (let me prompt an LLM for you)