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by weaksauce 6246 days ago
I know you are saying it tongue-in-cheek, but you still need to have a decent amount of knowledge of the domain in order to craft a good query and be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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In some limit cases, that's true, but I've literally heard the following two questions asked in the last week (one directly to me, one in the same room I was in; these are not FoF cases):

What is SCOM? What is MRTG?

In both cases, knowing nothing about the domain gets you exactly the answer you want. I think far more often than it doesn't, a relatively naive query to Google with a followup query or two with certain words excluded will get you what you need.