In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by rurp on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:06PM (#26547053)

One I just recently discovered is symbolhound.com. It's nice because it lets you search for characters that google absolutely refuses to treat as search terms. I needed to debug some makefiles and bash scripts the other day (not my strong suit!) and it helped me understand some of the weird syntax I was seeing.

As others have mentioned, Google no longer respecting literal search terms has made it much worse for many types of searches. DDG had been great at this, but sadly has been following in Google's footsteps the past few years.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by Shared404 on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:01PM (#26547878)

Ooh thanks! I'll throw that on the list!

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by ddingus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:22AM (#26551404)

Do you ever publish your list?

After reading through this discussion, I am inclined to explore search.

This crap sneaks up on a person one little adaptation at a time.

Searching on Yandex was a wake up call.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by Shared404 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:20AM (#26554619)

Most of it is here [0].

I update whenever I remember, which is sometimes.

It is currently up to date, except for the above linked engine. It doesn't have as many special purpose engines as I'd like though.

[0] http://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by ddingus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:49AM (#26556445)

Thanks. OctoPart can go on your speciality list, fwiw

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by Shared404 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:11PM (#26556692)

Many thanks, I would've killed for this about a month ago.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by ddingus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:35PM (#26557739)

So would I. Got it late myself.

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