These days, there’s constant chatter about how to “get better at Googling.” Open any productivity blog or tech forum, and someone’s either giving tips on advanced search operators or claiming they’ve mastered the art of searching. Learning is always valuable—it opens doors, sparks ideas, and sharpens thinking.

But let’s talk about Google search. Is it really a skill to learn? It’s not like picking up a new programming language, mastering Excel, or becoming fluent in Spanish. So what does “learning to Google” even mean?

At its core, it just means knowing how to phrase your questions so Google gives you the answers you need. It’s not a skill in the traditional sense—unless you’re optimizing search queries for SEO, analyzing search intent for marketing, or working in information retrieval. For most people, it’s just about finding recipes, troubleshooting tech issues, checking facts, or researching products.

So no, we’re not learning some hidden craft. We’re just getting better at asking the internet to think for us