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Subject:Re: Google - how far do you go? From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> Date:Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:24:34 -0700
With some engines, you consume the first half of the first page just
scrolling past the paid ads to find actual information.
As for how far to search, the moment clicking on a link lands you on an X
rated site, you're done searching no matter how many or few pages you've
looked at.
Gene Kim-Enjg
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:44 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> In your normal, everyday interaction with public search engines (Google,
> Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.), for roughly what percentage of search instances do
> you bother to look past page 1 of the results?
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