[askyourmother]

A good developer will Google for direction to help get a little clarity on a problem, maybe to review alternative ideas and solutions.

A bad developer will blindly copy and paste and use that. Painting-by-numbers, Coding-by-google.

I have seen the problems with the latter, where a team of offshore devs built a monster Java codebase by "doing the needful", which in this case was cutting and pasting from the first result in Google. One of the devs was different, he would cut and paste from bing. Fun times.

[paganel]

I guess that's a +1 for Google's SERPs when it comes to programming, unlike how bad they do in other search sub-domains. But I'm biased, I'm an off-shore programmer who has copy-pasted code snippets from Google searches countless times (they were SE links in 99% of the cases). Of course I could have copied the code by hand in order to feel morally superior, but as I am lazy I didn't see any need for that. At least I always made sure to include a link to the SE page from where the code snippet had been taken, so lets hope that SE won't change their link structure anytime soon.