The change means that you are likely to get old hits and miss new changes. There was a time where social topic sites and fan sites were returned because they have the best information matches. Google algorithms have changed both in how elements are classified and how searches are returned. Google is not a good way to look up this sort of information.

It really isn't an issue for me as it seems to be for you. I have answered hundreds of questions for new people in other games and helped hundreds of newbs in multi player games. I have played many pre-release games and often when stuff no longer makes sense it is because the functionality has changed so the content in past comments ('google-fu' as you say) has changed. I researched past comments and a few of them conflicted. This game is early release and the focus was on the story with the sandbox being a sideline. I understand the desire to interact with the community and needing an excuse to post and ask questions. Although a little google-fu would have answered this question.