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As mentioned in the comments of the article: What part of the lost traffic is people figuring out they can search Wikipedia directly? I've noticed older people
by Nadya 11y ago
As mentioned in the comments of the article: What part of the lost traffic is people figuring out they can search Wikipedia directly?
I've noticed older people are more likely to search Google for Youtube videos than they are to search Youtube. Same goes for trying to search other sites, they'll search for something and include "wikipedia" in the query.
The younger ones I've noticed (really small sample size of "my siblings and their friends") actually search on Wikipedia or Youtube.
Until I started using keywords to search sites directly, I was guilty of the former method myself.
- justlurkin 11y agoI'm partial to the former method for speed, but you almost always need to dive into the source to understand the "answer" provided. A somewhat relevant example is typing in a certain spelling of something to check correctness, and the first results are confirming your spelling, right or wrong. You click into the results, and you get "x, a common mispelling for y". Moral of the story, Google is great for finding things fast, but make sure you validate your results against multiple sources.