I can pretty much always find something on Google. But that’s always impersonal information. When I ask a question on fluther, I try to make it one that Google would have a hard time, but that doesn’t matter that much. What I get is personal answers. I get people’s experience with an issue or a problem. For me, that is far more valuable.
Personal experiences give me a range of answers, some of which I can relate to better than others. Even if it’s something like “how do I connect a this to a that,” people will describe different ways of doing it, even if they are talking about the same basic thing. They will mention different obstacles.
Google is pure information. No filtering. No assessment of the value of the information. Fluther is human beings who have thought about something or experienced something and they present that thinking or experience.
This is all to say that fluther is not an easier way to get information compared to Google. That’s because they answer in very different ways. They provide very different kinds of information. Fluther is human, and it speaks to questioners. Google is an algorithm and the largest database in human history. It finds stuff quickly, but it can’t tell you how good that information is. Only humans can do that.
Both have their place. But comparing them is like comparing sand to computer chips. I’ll leave it to you to decide which is sand and which is chip.