Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by jnaddef on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:52PM (#20688392)

When I read the title I thought it was going to be an article praising Google, but the author seems to actually think less clicks is bad?

I remember back in the early 2000s when I had to click through 1st to 10th result trying to find what I was looking for, sometimes even having to go to 2nd page of results.

Now I use search for everything : name of a built-in function, quick calculation, checking the spelling or wording of a sentence, short biography of someone... For none of that I will need to click on the result because the answer is given to me without needing to click anything.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by jnaddef on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:00PM (#20688496)

I would still recommend clicking on the link for coding issues, sometimes the algorithm will get you a snippet of SO's accepted answer even though it is not correct : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20149304/how-to-set-the-...

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by zuuow on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:25PM (#20688783)

The correct answer in SO questions is always the most voted one, not the accepted one. I always check for that. I think I've seen SO recently sort the answers of a certain question by number of votes by default but I might be wrong

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