Examiners do absolutely use NPL (non-patent literature) sources such as an including Google Scholar. Just because this one examiner in this case didn't include

Examiners do absolutely use NPL (non-patent literature) sources such as an including Google Scholar. Just because this one examiner in this case didn't include any record in the file wrapper also doesn't mean that they didn't conduct a search there themselves. But the evidence we're talking about here may not have even come up in a Google Scholar search as it appears it is only on a crowd funding page.