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Just to assure that my point was well understood.

Yes, you can today easily find quite a lot of information and learn about it, but this was not the situation the original poster lamented about.

The claim was that when faced with such question, one can just google it and read the answer. Problem solved. Because these are just some random facts like who is the president of France.

My point was that in my opinion these questions actually probe the general understanding about the CS field.