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According to Google Trends we reached "peak Google" in 2013: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Google https://trends.google.com/trends/explor
by portman 10y ago
According to Google Trends we reached "peak Google" in 2013:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Google https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Google
What's actually happened is that fewer people are using search engines as their app launcher, because they are using the smartphone home screen instead.
- the_rosentotter 10y agoNo comparable web properties have the dropoff that Facebook has (twitter, eBay, craigslist, even Yahoo which seems to be fading faster into irrelevance by the day).
- rm999 10y agoIsn't that a plot of people who search Google for the term "google"? If so, I imagine it's something people who are familiar with computers and the internet do not do often.
- astrodust 10y agoMaybe Google did peak and now people are treating search engines as some white-label service that they're utterly indifferent to the provider of.