When you want to find information out for a specific problem you may have?

For example, lets say you want to change over a faucet in one of your bathrooms, do you go to Google (or another search engine) to find out the information you need to change the faucet and actually check more than 1 source or, do you find the first link you come across and use the information contained on that site?

I was just reading an article that said most 'normal' people, will hit one of the search engines and use the first link that they find as their primary source of information, was just wondering if that was the general concensus around here too.

Regards,

Lee