Geez, sometimes (actually most of the time) I'm happy that I started electronics and embedded programming more than 35 years ago. At that time I would go to the library and bring stacks of books with me home, study them for weeks and actually LEARN something by myself. That were the days of "Databooks", books with component data that you would kill to get enough of (occupying meters after meters of shelf space!)
Today it seems that at least some people just get on the 'net and scratch the surface, copy a few bits here and there, ask for some help and thats it. YOU WILL NOT LEARN ANYTHING from that, other than using google....
Sorry for letting steam out, I hope it is just me and that I have completely misunderstood the world as it is today..... And sorry for being an old fart.... ;)
Per, you hit the nail spot on! Surely its not "Googles fault". Google only enables the "lazy people" to do something which they "in the old days" had to work much harder to do (most likely they would just have given up realizing that they were not "smart enough" or just did not have the energy). While they (we) were working harder to achive their (our) goals, they would magically also learn a lot of the principles behind whatever problem that was to be solved. Today it is a lot easier to just grab something from the net, and solve your immediate problem without gaining the fundamental knowledge. Also agree on the part of the GIMMIE generation. I think (naa, maybe I hope) sometimes its because of language barrier between those who ask these kind of "questions". Maybe the same kind of people also existed "way back" but you did not come across them as you do in these "global days"...