Gen Z dumping Google for TikTok, Instagram as social search wins

Do you google for information, or do you instagram it, or tiktok it? Your answer probably says a lot about your age, according to a recent survey.

From my post at Forbes …

Gen X and millennials might have made “google” a verb, but Instagram and TikTok are now the preferred search engines for Gen Z when seeking local results. According to a new study of 1,002 U.S. consumers, Google is now in third place for 18 to 24-year-0lds.

“Google is in for an intense fight to retain its relevance in search with younger users,” says Damian Rollison, director of market insights at SOCI, a marketing technology vendor that conducted the survey.

All the details in the full post …