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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by minikites on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:51PM (#26544179)
>I'm certain that the switch to Natural Language Processing drove this decline

It's the switch from lexical/syntactic search to semantic search. There are benefits and drawbacks to each and it would be nice for Google to give you the option to try each.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by BitwiseFool on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:09PM (#26544442)
Thank you for the clarification, I edited my original post to add "/ Semantic Search" because it's an important addition.
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