No, 99% would not know what the question is about, ask their geek friends, who would be able to move the needle.
That's how firefox became popular before google put an ad for chrome on their home page.
That's how firefox became popular before google put an ad for chrome on their home page.
You need to sit behind a help desk for a few hours to reset your expectations about humanity.
Among Gen Z, Google is the second most popular brand, behind YouTube.
It will be more convincing than any argument I can make.
It will also eat your soul a little. Sorry about that.
A few anecdotal experiences on help desk for, at most, a few companies, don't really change that.
Regular, normal people on the street use 'Google' as a verb for 'searching on the internet'.
Do some support.
It will make you understand the world a lot better.
Hell, it will change your whole perspective on many, many things. You will be a better engineer and a better businessman.
You won't get out a few anecdotes out of it. I promise. You will get an entire field study.
Anybody contacts it.
You did. I did. Everyone does.
This might even be the year of DDG on the Desktop! Well, the next year, or whenever the lawsuit and appeals conclude.