Seriously. Google searches these sites better than each site's own native search. And Google search is readily available in my Chrome browser bar on my laptop and phone, why would I take the added step of going to each site for their own inferior search?
Here's a rule... if you want to title your blog with something sweeping like "The growing irrelevance of X," you need to provide real, cited data to substantiate that claim. Just because you use Google less, doesn't mean there's a trend of doing so.
" When each site understands its own data better than Google, its internal search results will surpass Google’s. Google will no doubt continue to provide better global results, but the two-tiered search would decentralize efforts to improve algorithms. It is important to note that this solution does not need to be distributed: sites can share their local indexes and ranking algorithms with the routing search engine."
Here's a rule... if you want to title your blog with something sweeping like "The growing irrelevance of X," you need to provide real, cited data to substantiate that claim. Just because you use Google less, doesn't mean there's a trend of doing so.