[lamontcg]

I find myself over 50 now and I'll use Google, SO and the Docs all pretty equally, and often for the most trivial stuff. My head is too full of different programming languages, and my memory was never any good, so I'm very good at using search and then weighing all the information that I get back. I sometimes use search for pretty trivial things that I just don't bother memorizing.

But at a higher level there's principles that you need to understand in order to write robust code where you can't google the answer. And most SO/wikipedia answers to anything non-trivial will not be robust. And then there's the "ungoogleable" problems where you just need to roll up your sleeves and fix it. That can sometimes be broken down into tasks which are google-able by asking what kind of tool you need in order to investigate the problem -- and then using google to go find a tool that does that and learn about it.