Google backtracks on search results design

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:08AM (#22146287)

Whenever I hear people complain about Google and that they'll switch to a competitor, I'm reminded of the "Delete Facebook" memes that happened, only to have FB reach a new user record every subsequent month.

Don't be deluded by the HN bubble. I like DDG and am glad it exists, but it's usage in a year is probably what Google gets in a few minutes, and I'm willing to bet that ratio hasn't really improved significantly for years.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by justinpombrio on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:26AM (#22146358)

For anyone actually curious about the numbers:

Google traffic is about 4 million searches per minute, which comes to 6 billion searches per day. DDG traffic is about 50 million searches per day, so about 1%.

It looks like DDG traffic has been doubling every 1.5-2 years or so for the past decade. I presume that Google's traffic is relatively constant at this point.

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by jedberg on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:33PM (#22147374)

> I presume that Google's traffic is relatively constant at this point.

Probably a poor assumption. The total number of internet users is still growing significantly.

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