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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, @08:37PM
Followed immediately by the same 90% that this article references immediately forgetting any of the useful information presented there. Esp. if it is only presented once.
Now, if the useful info appears every time the browser is started, or a new window is open, then maybe, after months of usage, one or two tidbits will sneak past the lack of curiosity that resulted in the "transfer web page to phone to perform search" action of this kid.