The problem in my imo is that Google was good enough that basic operators were not required, as such the avg Joe is amazed when finding out that they exist, and Google doesn’t really promote the advanced search page these days.
Sure this talks a lot about emissions, but it also seems to include a detailed breakdown of various industrial uses for CO2, with numbers, projections, statistics and all.
First result for “co2 industrial usage numbers”, without quotes - just like the sibling comment.
You need to specify atleast a few keywords to clarify what you’re looking for - search engine nor llm chatbot nor HN commenters can read your mind…
It's one of the most common patterns I come across. I search word X but find a bunch of word Y stuff that's not what I'm looking for, because word X and Y appear together a lot in Y's context. So I add -Y to the query.
It's become a tool that basically anyone can at least get some information out of. Googling used to be a skill that non-technical people struggled with.
This was the first result: https://applications.messergroup.com/co2-applications
There were a number of other relevant results. Papers on various applications of CO2, forum posts, etc. Nothing on emissions.
Sure google is a lot worse these days than it used to be, but it still seems plenty usable to me and I have no issues finding what I want with some basic operators.