I'm surprised the global tipping point is now and not about two years ago.
Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
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Is this a recent experience? I've found the voice search to be incredibly proficient recently. It's slightly embarrassing, but I use it for search and text dictation almost constantly.
My wife uses speech input almost exclusively. She says that it is the most accurate way to text due to auto correct and simple typing errors that than need to be corrected or send a second corrected text. She hates most technology and just likes her old and tried ways and it has shocked me how much she picked up voice search and texting.
what phone does she have? I gave up on voice recognition a decade ago because I realized the thing has to work as good as an average person's ear/understanding capacity or it just stinks to use. So I said, I'll give it a decade or more. I still thought it was not there, since I never see people use Siri. Maybe I'm wrong?
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#13That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name. They search every site they want to visit, even if they just needed to add .com to their search term to open the site straight away in the browser. The "Internet" is the google search box.
Indeed, I think the simplicity of a single search box is so alluring compared to typing out a URL - to many, it's basically their idea vision of a computer as "the device that can answer your questions".
It's somewhat unfortunate, because the Internet is so much more than only what can be found via Google.
Re: Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
My wife uses speech input almost exclusively. She says that it is the most accurate way to text due to auto correct and simple typing errors that than need to be corrected or send a second corrected text. She hates most technology and just likes her old and tried ways and it has shocked me how much she picked up voice search and texting.
what phone does she have? I gave up on voice recognition a decade ago because I realized the thing has to work as good as an average person's ear/understanding capacity or it just stinks to use. So I said, I'll give it a decade or more. I still thought it was not there, since I never see people use Siri. Maybe I'm wrong?
I'd say it's close enough to being there, that it's there. I get about 95% accuracy, and the 5% is overcome by how much faster it is than poking fake keys.
This only applies to generic language. Unusual phrasings, niche words, or proper nouns come out wrong. This make speech perfect for quick texting, but still unusable for real writing.
Re: Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
#15That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name. They search every site they want to visit, even if they just needed to add .com to their search term to open the site straight away in the browser. The "Internet" is the google search box.
It could also be because the interface on mobile is significantly worse than on a desktop. Just doing a search, by typing into the already active text box, is easier than trying to navigate to the URL bar, hitting the wrong keys and getting the URL wrong. It's easier to just do a search and let Google work it out.
Honestly I'm surprised how many how almost exclusively use their phone to go online. It's seems like a huge step backwards in usability.
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#16I suppose this includes the many ways I can search for things on my Android phone that always goes through Google? As opposed to the fewer ways I can search on my desktop that doesn't always go through Google?
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#17Maybe someone should tell the idiots that design most of the horrible mobile sites to stop forwarding link clicks from search results to the main page. Mobile sites are garbage 90% of the time anyway...
Re: Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
#18That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name. They search every site they want to visit, even if they just needed to add .com to their search term to open the site straight away in the browser. The "Internet" is the google search box.
I wonder how many googles they get for google.
A lot, probably. If you look at google.com/trends there are two countries that have a 'most searched' graph, Belgium and The Netherlands. Google has a fourth place in Belgium and a third place in The Netherlands.
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#19That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name. They search every site they want to visit, even if they just needed to add .com to their search term to open the site straight away in the browser. The "Internet" is the google search box.
God is this true. My girlfriend just types 'facebook' into the URL bar, then clicks on Facebook.com. I don't understand it.
Re: Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
#20Maybe someone should tell the idiots that design most of the horrible mobile sites to stop forwarding link clicks from search results to the main page. Mobile sites are garbage 90% of the time anyway...
Google claims that they now penalize these sites on mobile: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/06/changes-i...