> “Googling it” is okay! I wrote a book called “Relevant Search” and created one of the most popular Elasticsearch plugins (Elasticsearch Learning to rank). I’

> “Googling it” is okay! I wrote a book called “Relevant Search” and created one of the most popular Elasticsearch plugins (Elasticsearch Learning to rank). I’ve worked in Solr, Lucene, and Elasticsearch for more than 8 years more or less constantly. I have, at any given time, dozens of google tabs open dedicated to Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch. Sometimes on basic things to jog my mind. Knowing how to interpret information online, what exactly to search for, and having memory to be jogged by other context is just part of what it means to have a skill. Memorizing documentation is rarely a good use of brain cells IMO, even pre google when instead you used a book index/ToC to do the same thing.