Slashdot wrote:Google search anthropologist Dan Russell says that 90 percent of people in his studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page. '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,' says Russell, who has studied thousands of people on how they search for stuff. '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!"' Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we're looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing, says Alexis Madrigal. 'I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all,' writes Madrigal. 'We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas.'
It's staggering how some people struggle to find something on the net.
For example. The wife did some research on trees. We recently moved and the garden needs some touch ups and the tree will be there for shade.
I probably watched TV for 2hours when she came into the living room complaining her eyes hurt from searching for her information and asked if I could help because she could not find anything.
After 5min sitting down, I found all the info she needed and I will tell you, CTRL+F was used A LOT!
I think people still struggle to use Google (or any search engine) effectively and to their best advantage.
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Well, I didn't know about CTRL+F, but Opera has a "find-in-page" feature, which I use a lot.
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Cool. Maybe I should find out about these things instead of fumbling about like an idiot.
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A list of keyboard shortcuts HERE, for fellow buffoons.
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