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90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F

posted by janrinok on Monday December 23 2019, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the perhaps-they-can't-find-it dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-90-percent-of-people-dont-know-how-to-use-ctrl-f/243840/

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!'"

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Dr Spin on Tuesday December 24 2019, @01:42PM (1 child)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Tuesday December 24 2019, @01:42PM (#935868)

    Emacs does not work on my piano you must have a new-fangled Yamaha or something!

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 24 2019, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 24 2019, @04:15PM (#935883)

    Assuming an electric/electronic piano keyboard, it should be pretty straightforward to bind the keys to emacs. Might be nice to have a really long, linear keyboard to go with a big monitor?