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Oh jeez: > What this means is that, unlike so many other gaming trends, Fortnite truly seems like it's here to stay. According to Google searches, Fortnite has
by d23 8y ago
Oh jeez:
> What this means is that, unlike so many other gaming trends, Fortnite truly seems like it's here to stay. According to Google searches, Fortnite has a ways to go to reach the staggering highs of Pokémon Go, the popular mobile game that became a huge phenomenon throughout the summer of 2016.
The argument is that Fortnite is not a fad, and then it's immediately compared to one of the biggest gaming fads in recent memory? And it isn't quite as popular as that fad? Okay.
> “More people in the U.S. are searching for ‘Fortnite’ on Google than they are for ‘Reddit’ and these searches have risen sharply over the last two months," said John DeFeo, VP of Internet Marketing at Purch, Tom's Guide's parent company.
What a genius comparison! Perhaps a site that's been around for over a decade and already has mass brand recognition might not get as many people googling it bare, since most people can just... go there directly.
- Yhippa 8y agoWould people really search for "reddit"? You'd think they'd just go straight to the site.
- roganartu 8y agoAnecdotally, the process to get to Facebook for many members of my family is to Google "f" or "facebook". They know how to go directly there but for whatever reason prefer Googling it. I have heard the same from friends about their (typically older) family too.
- rootusrootus 8y agoAt this point I would assume most people who use Facebook routinely type 'f' in the address/search bar and it autocompletes immediately to the full Facebook URL and they just hit enter. Trying to get Chrome to search for facebook instead of going to facebook.com takes extra effort.
- matte_black 8y agoI add reddit to search terms when I want to search reddit for a topic.
- nthot 8y agoYeah, the only way to search reddit and actually get what you are looking for is through Google. I don't understand why the website's search is so bad.
- matte_black 8y agoProbably because everyone just uses Google anyway. And good search is hard to do.
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- decisiveness 8y ago> Perhaps a site that's been around for over a decade and already has mass brand recognition might not get as many people googling it bare, since most people can just... go there directly. It seems to me that googling for a popular site like reddit is actually pretty common. A couple of reasons: 1. Because google is often much better at returning relevant results for site:<site>.com <query> than searching for <query> in the site's search engine. I would think this to be the case even more so for types of sites like reddit simply because of such high total post / word count. In fact, brand recognition would seem to be more of a reason for people to google it. E.g. If you want to read a wikipedia article on some topic, you normally wouldn't visit wikipedia.org first to use its search, you'd google "wikipedia <topic>" or "site:wikipedia.org <topic>". 2. To avoid hitting enter after a typo and ending up on some malware site <domain with typo>.com.
- baddox 8y agoDo people even use the site:reddit.com google query? If I want to search for something on reddit, I just search “something reddit” and the results are nearly always sufficient.
- oxide 8y agoYes. I use it for comment searching, you'd be surprised how useful it is for miscellaneous subject research. Then again I always try to use operators when applicable.