Search engine stall? Young people searching elsewhere!

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Round Table.

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  You're listening to Roundtable with myself, Hei Young.

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  Coming up, is Baidu or Google still the go to for answers?

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  Gen Z says no, thanks.

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  Instead, they're turning to Douyin and Instagram for everything from lunch spots to life hacks.

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  Why has social media become the new search engine?

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  It'd be great if you could send in voice memos because it'd be best to hear your voice on the show.

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  Now let's turn our attention to a new generation of search engines or new ways in how we get information.

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  It's official.

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  Search engines, I mean, are losing ground and social media and AI are taking their place.

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  Young people have abandoned the old school ways of Googling and Baiduing in favor of platforms such as TikTok and Red, where videos, reviews and algorithms deliver instant answers.

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  Now, with generative AI chatbots that summarize answers from multiple sources, the search engine landscape is evolving faster than so is this a trend or is it the dawn of a new era of how we find information?

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  And the latest news seems to come from China and elsewhere as well.

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  That is, young people no longer go to search engines and type in those words and click search.

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