>>Sorry, now I don't understand you. I just meant that you can find practically everything in google once you figured out the good search criteria. I succeed in my searches in 90%, though sometimes I have to go through lots of links to find a real answer.
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>The reason this site exists is because we create messages and that creates an archive. Without any archive, there wouldn't be any source of revenues that would justify running this site. What I do everytime I have a question, which is also what I recommend to others, is to first start by posting here. That is what I do. Then, I use this site search engine. If I cannot find it, I might have time to search elsewhere on the net. During all that time, if someone knows the answer right away, I might get a reply here. And, if I find it myself, I will do a follow up on my own messages. This is the recommended way. That is what I suggest to people using this site and for those who believe in it. If I would jump elsewhere at first to search for an answer, I wouldn't know what I would have built this site for.

Michel,

I was not suggesting to not post here the questions, you got this wrong. In fact, that's how I usually approach the problem too - often I post first and then search. But when I see the interesting question and I don't know the answer right away, I search myself (in google or here first - depends on the question). In 90% I'm able to find the answer I'm looking for though in some cases it takes many iterations and many searches (here and in google and in other known resources).

BTW, I wanted to find a thread today (answer to Mike Cole question) and I tried several searches here and could not find the thread.

Google would not know everything if this site and other sites/blogs/forums would not exist :) How would it know the answer otherwise? :)