My school had a class in the early 2000's on how to use a search engine. It certainly wasn't just about Google, at the time.
Are you telling me you never had that painful experience watching someone else use a computer to perform a search and struggle to find basic things? It's possible to be "bad" at it.
I've used it for code, most often.
I've saved many hours of work with it, in languages I don't really even know.