Post by account_disabled on Feb 14, 2024 7:33:15 GMT
The want to talk about some surprising and interesting and a few funny facts that I learnt when I was reading some research that Google did about how kids search for information. So this isnt super actionable. This is not about tactics of improving your website particularly. But I think we get some insights they were studying kids aged to by looking at how kids interact. We can see some reflections or some ideas about how there might be some misconceptions out there about how adults search as well. So lets dive into it.
What do dolphins eat Ive got this What do dolphins eat because this was the Belgium Email List first question that the researchers gave to the kids to say sit down in front of a search box go. They tell this little anecdote a little bit kind of souldestroying of this I think it was a sevenyearold child who starts typing dolphin DOLF and then presses Enter and it was like sadly theres no dolphins which hopefully they found him some dolphins. But a lot of the kids succeeded at this task. Different kinds of searchers The researchers divided the ways that the kids approached it up into a bunch of different categories. . Some are what they called developing.
They classified some as distracted. But one that I found fascinating was what they called visual searchers. I think they found this more commonly among the younger kids who were perhaps a little bit less confident reading and writing. It turns out that for almost any question you asked them these kids would turn first to image search. So for this particular question they would go to image search typically just type dolphin and then scroll and go looking for pictures of a dolphin eating something. Then theyd find a dolphin eating a fish and theyd turn to the researcher and say Look dolphins.
What do dolphins eat Ive got this What do dolphins eat because this was the Belgium Email List first question that the researchers gave to the kids to say sit down in front of a search box go. They tell this little anecdote a little bit kind of souldestroying of this I think it was a sevenyearold child who starts typing dolphin DOLF and then presses Enter and it was like sadly theres no dolphins which hopefully they found him some dolphins. But a lot of the kids succeeded at this task. Different kinds of searchers The researchers divided the ways that the kids approached it up into a bunch of different categories. . Some are what they called developing.
They classified some as distracted. But one that I found fascinating was what they called visual searchers. I think they found this more commonly among the younger kids who were perhaps a little bit less confident reading and writing. It turns out that for almost any question you asked them these kids would turn first to image search. So for this particular question they would go to image search typically just type dolphin and then scroll and go looking for pictures of a dolphin eating something. Then theyd find a dolphin eating a fish and theyd turn to the researcher and say Look dolphins.