<p>I have observed many times that people ask questions that have the specificity to be solved by a Google search.  Yet they come to us and ask us.  Often it could be fro a reference on a statistical method.  Sometimes I refer them to Google and at other times I will answer the question after finding the answer through a Google search and people will reward me with reputation points for that! Why are we relied on so much in situations where the OP could easily get the answer through Google or Wikipedia?  Is it just that we older folks haven't got the hang of search engines yet?  Do people not understand how quickly google can come up with thousands of references of which many of the early ones will be very useful?</p>
