Matt, you get porn sites in your search results? What are you searching for?
"Camera"? ;)
I search for lots of basic things and the answers are almost always readily available, though presumably it depends on what considers 'basic'.
Finding "answers" is one thing. Finding the RIGHT answer can be a whole other thing. As an example: I tried googling the location of the hard reset jumpers for a specific older motherboard I was working on, since there was nothing actually labeled as such on the board (I've been building systems for a LONG time, so I have a fair idea what to look for anyway; there was nothing obvious in this case). I Googled the board make and model number, and "reset jumper". I got tons of hits on assorted hardware forums (Tom's, etc.), a couple from the manufacturer further down the list, and a few from online vendors (NewEgg, Amazon, etc.)
The vast majority of the results included references to the two terms, but not together. A few were general discussions of how to reset BIOSes, with maybe one or two mentions of the board in question in the course of discussion, but nothing detailing exactly where those jumpers were for THAT board. And one hit had the board model included in a poster's signature, but that was it.
The manufacturer's site, in this case, was painfully slow, and the links to download the manuals consistently gave me errors. I finally found a working link for the manual far down the list, in a small online reseller's support section.
Of course this is kind of an extreme case, and it was helped by the fact I had an idea what result I was looking for, so I could scan the results and eliminate several links myself. For the average barely-computer-literate user though, it can get very frustrating, very quickly, to just start working through links and scanning page after page of technobabble.
I agree, though, that advanced / niche knowledge can be hard or not possible to find but, in my experience, most issues can be resolved with searching, either on a general search engine or to specific sites that specialize in the topic you are interested in.
True, especially if the sites have their own search boxes, so once you find a site that you THINK SHOULD have what you need, you can enter a refined query there and not have to worry about results from completely unrelated sites.