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This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"
(Score: 2) by progo on Monday December 23 2019, @07:12PM
You're never going to successfully teach "there is a Find command, bound to Ctrl-F" using the new-profile welcome screen. Users have to meet you half-way.
In Waterfox (Firefox fork), the main menu has a clearly labeled 'Find in This Page' command with an icon and a shortcut hint. If you don't see that… I honestly don't know how to help you.