[bryanrasmussen]

> in the same way that some people have good "Google-fu"

or, perhaps, in the same way that google-fu over time became devalued as a skill as Google became less useful for power users in order to cater to the needs of the unskilled, it will not really be a portable skill at all, because it is in the end a transitory or perhaps easily attainable skill once the technology is evenly distributed.

[rtpg]

Perhaps, but in Google's case that's, what, 10 years of value I got out of knowing how to write good searches? Probably more honestly.

Everything is temporary to some extent.