Amos,

I would see the effort involved in searching more of a "define the ineffable Spirit of the Internet" than of any individual website. There may be (as I indicated in my previous post) different expectations of efforts made by an individual in thier own attempts to find an answer/solution but I think the willingness to spend time is common.

On the grand scale of things I would expect say diagnosing an obscure bug in some open source software typically takes more free man hours than finding song links but in my experience it is done equally willingly.