Invisible wrote:
> But how on earth do you get an answer 
> to something like "what's the most popular Z?" 

http://google.com/search?q=what+is+the+most+popular+codec

> Just the other day I was trying to figure out the relative speed of 
> various CPU arithmetic operations, and I couldn't find anything useful 
> with Google (as evidenced by my asking here).

That's the sort of thing where you need to know what the answer looks 
like in order to find it, methinks. If you don't know the term used for 
spec sheets, you're going to get too many odd hits on relative speeds of 
CPUs.

> So yeah, there's a pretty huge sea of questions that I couldn't get 
> Google to answer. It's not an Oracle, it's just a search engine.

That searches answers, not questions. Keep that in mind. :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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