Agreed. The layperson for the most person does not know how to search effectively. Even among my developer friends today who are competent, if they can't find

Agreed. The layperson for the most person does not know how to search effectively. Even among my developer friends today who are competent, if they can't find something, they come to me. I have a knack for finding things that are difficult to find - going back all the way to when AltaVista was the best search engine around - I can't really explain it. My parents, in-laws, etc... they all say on a pretty regular basis that they have trouble finding what they're searching for. Google tries really hard to return relevant results (which actually annoys me because I really, really, really want it to search for exactly what I typed - by default.)