The proper course here is to flag the answer as "Not an Answer" because, well, it's not an answer. This is necessary to keep the site clean. If we let one person's "question" answer stay then we have to let everyone's question answers stay.

As you can see, I tried to help the OP out while waiting for the deletion on the off-chance he saw my comment. Some people have before...

Also, the first search result (on Bing of all places) would have answered his question, so it's not like we're killing his only chance at figuring out what he needs to know ;)

#tl;dr*

These "answers" need to be flagged just the same as any other "answer" that isn't an answer, but it's good practise to try and answer the guy's question at the same time (if possible, sometimes he just needs to ask a real question).

^{*(man.. that wasn't much for you to skip O_O)}

The proper course here is to flag the answer as "Not an Answer" because, well, it's not an answer. This is necessary to keep the site clean. If we let one person's "question" answer stay then we have to let everyone's question answers stay.

As you can see, I tried to help the OP out while waiting for the deletion on the off-chance he saw my comment. Some people have before...

Also, the first search result (on Bing of all places) would have answered his question, so it's not like we're killing his only chance at figuring out what he needs to know ;)

tl;dr*

These "answers" need to be flagged just the same as any other "answer" that isn't an answer, but it's good practise to try and answer the guy's question at the same time (if possible, sometimes he just needs to ask a real question).

^{*(man.. that wasn't much for you to skip O_O)}