Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by rchaud on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:17PM (#20689256)

For an increasing proportion of users, the "address bar" is now the "Google search" bar. You may have discovered xe.com when the distinction was much more obvious, but as time went on the browser UI underwent changes, that will change as well.

New versions of Chromium will begin hiding the full URL entirely, probably so that more and more marketing/targeting related UTM parameters can be jammed in without the user ever even knowing.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by t0ughcritic on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:05AM (#20702973)

No it’s so you don’t remember it or care for urls and just search everything making google the only source of info online.

Pay to play baby if you want to show up

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