[BigZaphod]

I use Google to start the process of finding answers (often with results pointing to SO). But when it comes time to ask a question, I go to SO immediately and almost always get a reasonable answer within a few hours. The more this keeps happening, the more the Googling step will become irrelevant.

[ghosttrails]

This is the thing about SO that really works. You almost always get a good answer within hours of asking any programming question (that's been my experience anyway).