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Re:Google Search Is Dying by lotsofpulp on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:06PM (#30353466)
That does not make sense. If searches did not result in satisfactory results, then people would stop searching.

Which they are, evidenced by restricting searches to HN or Reddit.

This is a problem for google, maybe not right this minute as growth might offset dissuaded users, but nevertheless, it does not behoove them in the long run to provide garbage search results to people.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by littlecranky67 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:11PM (#30353542)
> Which they are, evidenced by restricting searches to HN or Reddit.

You are right but overestimate the number of people doing these restrictive searches. They should be in the <0.1% range. I personally switched (to duck and latly kagi.com) and know quite some people in tech that did so too, but the non tech-savy person (which are the majority of overall users) doesn't even know other search engines.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by lotsofpulp on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:46PM (#30353913)
Eventually, though, even non technical users will stop Google searching if it wastes their time. If they do not find what they want, then they can go back to asking people in person or instagram or whatever, but I would not expect people to keep aimlessly searching.
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