Maybe, maybe not. How useful is Google (or search in general) to you?
For me search is more of a convenience tool than for finding sites that have information. There are questions I need answered but without search would have an easy time figuring out (e.g. "how many cups are in a pint?"). Sometimes I want opinions, but I almost always am going to the same sources. Sometimes I use search because I'm too lazy to click around using a site's own search. The only things that are actually useful for me from search are for specific expert knowledge that I want in a structured manner (e.g. "what do I need to consider when buying a house?"), and those queries are incredibly few
> Maybe, maybe not. How useful is Google (or search in general) to you?
I think I use google in the same way as you.
Most of the time, I could go to the websites directly (MDN, Stackoverflow, HN), but sometimes I'm trying to find something I don't know about, by trying different terms. I usually do this when I want a particular product but I don't know what it's called or what it is "smallest itx case without gpu", "midi router no power supply", "waterproof tarp diy tent setup".
I installed a browser extension called uBlacklist as recommended by someone here a couple of weeks ago, so now 90% of the time Google search is like my Ctrl-P for MDN, Stackoverflow, etc since I've managed to filter out the sites I don't want to see results from.
Maybe, maybe not. How useful is Google (or search in general) to you?
For me search is more of a convenience tool than for finding sites that have information. There are questions I need answered but without search would have an easy time figuring out (e.g. "how many cups are in a pint?"). Sometimes I want opinions, but I almost always am going to the same sources. Sometimes I use search because I'm too lazy to click around using a site's own search. The only things that are actually useful for me from search are for specific expert knowledge that I want in a structured manner (e.g. "what do I need to consider when buying a house?"), and those queries are incredibly few
I feel like search is slowly becoming irrelevant