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Is Google search how most people find their news? I’m not a typical user, so I really don’t know, but my sense is that people have a go-to source (Reddit, Twitt
by hairofadog 6y ago
Is Google search how most people find their news? I’m not a typical user, so I really don’t know, but my sense is that people have a go-to source (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, aggregators like Apple News or yeah, Google News, or loading sites directly like NYT, Fox News, etc.) If they do use Google search, what are they searching for? Do they type “news”, or do they think, hmm, what topics am I interested in today, and search for those directly?
- PeterisP 6y agoIt's a substantial percentage of news site traffic - if you're interested in something in particular (as opposed to "what's new today") often people'll search for some topic (e.g. "impeachment" or "Arsenal game" or the name of some celebrity) and get linked to an article in a news site, so a significant percentage of news site traffic does come from search engine. On the other hand, you're right that intuitively people probably won't consider that their local news sites must be accessible through google, if they want news, they do have a go-to source, whatever that is - so that supports an argument that Australian news sites overestimate their importance to Google; Google probably won't suffer much if it can't or won't link to them.