Well this is not so much a rant against search engines, or even programming forums, as it is about the number of people offering bad advise in those forums. I come across it all the time and especially when it comes to database issues.

As to googling for it, well it has always been the case that you can not know everything about any technology or platform - and if you try then what you know is out of date before you finish. So the real skill has been to be able to find out what you need to know when you need to know it. Of course, being able to understand and use that knowledge comes next. So it does not matter whether it is Google results or an IBM manual, you have to be able to recognise the real meat when you see it.