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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 krishnoid on Monday December 23 2019, @09:21PM (1 child)
Windows specifically, I tend to use F3 reasonably frequently [microsoft.com].
Also, I don't know about you, but *I* used to use Control-F a *lot* on all platforms. Nowadays though, I prefer Meta-D and then retype an entire word instead.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 24 2019, @02:05AM
F3 seems to be alias for CTRL-G here, using an IBM OS..