Comment by benced
1 day ago
... DDG had .7% marketshare (https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .16% of Google users didn't love AI mode enough to switch.
Classic example of misleading with stats.
DDG is probably regularly growing at ~20%+ anyway...
Google's search volume has been growing 12%+ per year for 20+ years, there's obviously much more room for volatility when you're smaller...
I wonder what other alternative search engines Google lost to besides DDG.
Well... it is still a huge relative increase. And who knows where it could lead them, if they can sustain that sort of growth on a weekly basis...compounding and all...
The headline is implying that AI mode is super unpopular with the very large number "28" and not the more accurate number of .16.