I find that I like to use a basic cookbook, rather than Chef Google, when I'm looking up common recipes (hard-boiled eggs, a roast, etc.). I go online--Pinterest, mostly--for more interesting stuff. I'll probably get my younger three good, basic cookbooks before they move out. I know DS13 was having fun paging through "Joy of Cooking", just the other day. My oldest is vegetarian, and she gets most of her recipes/cooking info online, which is fine. I just like actual cookbooks. One of the nice things about an actual book is, on your way to finding the recipe for lemon bars, you can wander by several other interesting recipes you might like to try. Plus, they've been tested--my biggest gripe about Pinterest is, it becomes very obvious when the poster didn't try out the recipe as written.
OTOH, I've had a lot of success with cooking websites--Betty Crocker, Kraft, and so forth.