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The New Search Engine Is TikTok And Instagram! 40% Of Gen Z Use Social Media Instead Of Google

Ekdam se waqt badal diye. . .jazbaat badal diye! Yeah! We feel you Google! The undisputed king of search is fading into oblivion as Gen Z embraces social platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Some concerning observations have been made by the search engine giant in a recent study. It is estimated that 40% of youngsters use either Instagram or TikTok as a search engine. Do you think Google will go the way of Yahoo or will it rethink its strategy?

Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference about emerging tech and future of the search engine giant, Senior Vice President Prabhkakar Raghwan, who runs Google’s Knowledge and Information Organization deliberated on how youngsters are dumping Google. Raghwan remarks

“We keep learning, over and over again, that new internet users don’t have the expectations and the mindset that we have become accustomed to.”

Apparently they don’t type in “keywords” anymore. The Gen Z are hooked to immersive content. Raghwan says that over 40% of youngsters don’t go check Google Maps or Search for new eateries. They do that on Insta or TikTok instead.

Google admits the figure to be shocking. It wasn’t enough as if TikTok and Insta Reels were eating away YouTube market shares, now Google’s ubiquitous search is on the chopping block! What about all the decade worth of curation of restaurants and pubs on Maps? Google might come up with a more visually immersive way of engaging the next generation of internet users born into smart devices unlike the millennials and the ones born just before the smart phones stormed into our lives for better or worse. Google has already been working on indexing popular TikTok and Instagram videos to show up on its feed. But users might not immediately wanna jump from the native app to a browser and search.

Long way to go Google. Uphill task for restaurant businesses to stay relevant.

For the millennials who only use Google, feel ancient yet?

Neha Rajhttps://imp.news
Neha uses his broad range of knowledge to help explain the latest gadgets and if they’re a must-buy or a fad fueled by hype. Though her specialty is writing about everything going on in the world of virtual reality and augmented reality.
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