Exactly. It's not due to some Google-fu though. People ask questions (on SO) in the terms they think about problems. But documentation is written according to

Exactly. It's not due to some Google-fu though. People ask questions (on SO) in the terms they think about problems. But documentation is written according to the structure of the thing being documented. So SO ends up being a more direct mapping from problem to solution. Google simply captures what's there (in both cases). It's certainly good to consult the authoritative docs in many cases.