Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
by ams6110 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:31PM
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I rarely use google outside of work. At home, I have a few regular sites I keep up with, I know the URLs and I just type them in.
Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
by sl1ck731 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:13PM
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The article says that it is 20% of mobile searches. I doubt many people are doing very lengthy research mobile. I have seen siri and okgoogle being used pretty commonly for mobile searching. I'd be interested to see how many searches happen on mobile vs desktop though.
I would also be interested in seeing if people looking for places/directions factors into this in some way.
Does the average user perform significantly less searches, and so the novelty or occasional voice search moves the needle 20%, or are they performing as many searches as me but using voice for many of them. I personally only ever found voice search useful for things that are more like questions and not research ("how old is _______" is a classic example) so I find it difficult to believe the latter. The former would be quite the revelation though because I always assumed _everyone_ googled as much as I do but it seems that might not be the case.