>Googling Is for Old People<p>seems just to be some nonsense the writer made up. If you look at stats the most frequent users are 16-25 <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1000019/individuals-who-use-google-search-in-sweden-in-by-age-and-frequency/" rel="nofollow">https://www.statista.com/statistics/1000019/individuals-who-...</a><p>And comparing Google/Bing/Yahoo, old folk Bing while youngsters Google <a href="https://www.internetmarketingteam.co.uk/who-uses-bing-how-age-demographics-affect-how-someone-searches-on-the-internet/" rel="nofollow">https://www.internetmarketingteam.co.uk/who-uses-bing-how-ag...</a><p>I can see how revenues are moving to Amazon. Google is terrible for product search, like what is the best value TV say, compared to Amazon.
GPT is the new Google at least for me... yesterday at Thanksgiving a cousin wanted to play a game she brought. She taught us but forgot two rules that GPT knew (the Pit). I didnt have do a search, look through results or click thru various sites to find exactly the fringe info I sought about this game. GPT just provided the nitty gritty details immediately and when I needed to ask for another rule GPT retained what i searched for previously so i didnt have type a long query.<p>Google seems to be getting it's butt handed to them with the US government recent ruling and GPT's rise.<p>Im just hoping GPT releases their own AI Phone .. GPT Phone sounds cool to me. A Siri on iPhone that works like GPT won't be available til Spring 2026. GPT and maybe Microsoft have opportunity to take a chunk of the phone market.
The open web is dead. Google zero is here. The end is nigh.<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24167865/google-zero-search-crash-housefresh-ai-overviews-traffic-data-audience" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/24167865/google-zero-search-crash-h...</a><p>Except for The Verge of course.
I think the big problem is simply that the results are bad. They’re full of spammy links to weird websites with verbose but useless content or just links going to the obvious sources that you could visit yourself like Wikipedia or stack exchange. All the sponsored content and allegations of politically manipulated results don’t help either. Using a chatbot seems more effective most of the time.<p>But Google has one resource that others do not, which genuinely contains a lot of good content. And that is YouTube. If they could simply make the content of videos easier to search, they would be able to offer a unique set of useful answers. At least for now before AI generated garbage takes over YouTube.
> Without the traffic that Google sends across the web, the incentive and resources to continue producing websites attractive to Google’s search algorithm will decline.<p>In the early days, I followed some basic guides about how to make web pages more attractive to Google search. But after a while, gave it up. Now I work on making pages solely useful to the users, and pay no attention to engagement metrics or any of that nonsense.
Gift link: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/googling-is-for-old-people-thats-a-problem-for-google-5188a6ed?st=WF3eNK" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/tech/googling-is-for-old-people-thats-a-...</a>
More and more I am relying on my own set of domains for navigation, sorry google I am leasing you<p><a href="https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database">https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database</a>
Also see this report <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2024/online-nation-2024-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/rese...</a><p>Google’s use dropped from 86% to 83% in one year in the UK. That's 1.8m people less per month using it
This fits in with a previous post of mine asserting that, contrary to popular wisdom, companies do not naturally grow to take over the world.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279679">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279679</a>
I think more people are starting to realize that the search engine content is curated, so they are starting to look at additional search engines and comparing results. Though Google casts such a large net that its hard to see a world where they become a minority player.
Google Search, like Yahoo Search before it, is on its way out of common use, and nothing will stop this tide. I give it ten years, so by 2035, until it becomes a distant memory.
Social media influencers have replaced Google search for the youngs. If there's something you want to know, an influencer will tell you. Not saying this is good or bad, but it's what I've noticed.