For me, the article points at a specific instance of a general phenomena. The bigger potential issue is googling by default rather than a last resort: increasingly, it is looking like a short term expedient and long term dependency for me, personally.

Yesterday as I was fooling around with Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. One of the great things about that book is that Glickstein figures [correctly in my case] that someone learning to write extensions might not have a good handle on other aspects of Emacs...such as help. It hit me how googling tends to drop me into the emacs manual or other high level references and how impossible it is to drill down on specifics in the way the Emacs help system allows. I mean I can google up a list of the top 150 Emacs keyboard shortcut, but I can't google up "C-x n".

While I love StackOverflow, the overhead of "What does 'C-x n' do?" is astronomical...even if such questions were appropriate.

I've trained myself to break flow and look at ads every few minutes because Google seems great. I'll even google knowing it will have some StackOverflow links under the ads at the top instead of going to the site directly. What I won't get is the great local resource that sits on my machine.