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I remember when I could paste an error message into Google and get an answer. I do not remember pasting a 60 line stack trace into Google and getting an answer, though I'm pretty sure I honestly never tried that. Did it work?
Yes, pasting lots of seemingly random context into Google used to work shockingly well.
I could break most passwords of an internal company application by googling the SHA1 hashes.
It was possible to reliably identify plants or insects by just googling all the random words or sentences that would come to mind describing it.
(None of that works nowadays, not even remotely)