> Traditional search (at least on the web) is dying.
That's not my experience at all. While there are scammy sites, using the search engines as an index instead of an oracle still yields useful results. It only requires to learn the keywords which you can do by reading the relevant materials .
How do you read the relevant materials if you haven’t found them yet? It’s a chicken and egg problem. If your goal is to become an expert in a subject but you’re currently a novice, search can’t help you if it’s only giving you terrible results until you “crack the code.”