There are some definite non-trivial skills involved in successfully googling the solution to a problem. The biggest one is having enough reading comprehension

There are some definite non-trivial skills involved in successfully googling the solution to a problem. The biggest one is having enough reading comprehension to understand what you found (or alternatively, having enough time/patience to watch YouTube videos that take forever to get to the point. The second most important is the ability to recognize non-solutions or non-optimal solutions. For many people, they are used to learning from other people instead of from search results. So it makes sense that their first instinct is to reach for asking those around them.