Why do people ask questions on here that could be better answered by googling, binging, or using Yahoo search?

I know this question has been asked before, and I'm not calling anyone stupid. I worry for the person asking. If its a fluff question, or a request to do a person's entire homework, or obviously a troll, then I have no problem with wrong answers. I suspect that some of the people who have asked this question, or variations of it, have trouble understanding why people won't take that extra step. I've seen people looking for clarification being informed that the gas giants are not planets, but brown stars. I've seen people being told that the solar winds don't exist. I've seen people being told that the loss of the moon would make no difference to life on Earth. And please, please don't get me started on the wrong-headed thinking that goes on in the Law & ethics and Law enforcement sections. I don't answer questions in sections that are outside of my strong areas, unless they are asking an opinion, but young people looking for clarification don't k

know that (sorry, got cut off)some people will answer anything, and when they go into school and swear blind that nothing will go wrong if the moon disappears, it won't stop them from getting a fail. When some one breaks into a house to steal their stuff back, that won't stop them from being arrested. I grew up before the internet, back when computers were warehouse size, so to me it seems unfathomable taht people won't take a few minutes to find what used to take me a few hours at the libray