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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @08:29PM (1 child)
Much more likely it is the fact that desktop software does not have the "touch with my finger" aspect to it.
That, or the fact that the ones that spend their lives on their phone are doing little more than infinitely scrolling through a facebook feed. And that requires knowledge of just one action, swipe up/down with finger.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday December 23 2019, @09:27PM
don't forget swipe right/left for dating apps
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