I haven't looked anything up in a book on programming in a long time, but I'm not really a software engineer presently. While I rely on Google in general and stack overflow in particular, I don't believe everything is on the Internet. I went through a period where I started to think everything was, but in recent years I realized it isn't.
And just making the decision to type things into Google is far from the ability to search effectively. Increasingly search engines will converge on a bad answer for a given question because it's the most popular. You just cannot assume that the correct solution is going to be prominent, because once another one has critical mass, it cannot be dethroned. The result that sounds just barely plausible enough to fool the average person making the search (not the average programmer) wins, and often it's terribly wrong.
And just making the decision to type things into Google is far from the ability to search effectively. Increasingly search engines will converge on a bad answer for a given question because it's the most popular. You just cannot assume that the correct solution is going to be prominent, because once another one has critical mass, it cannot be dethroned. The result that sounds just barely plausible enough to fool the average person making the search (not the average programmer) wins, and often it's terribly wrong.