Originally Posted by Magnetron

Perhaps they are losing surfers from Google because those surfers are going straight to the tubes ......?

What's the point of going through Google when the major tubes are their own search engines?

Nobody hardly searches for "search engines" anymore because it is common knowledge that only a few major SE's exist. There is no point in going through Google to get to Bing and vice versa.

How much SE traffic does Facebook get now in comparison to it's early years when people weren't that familiar with it? Nowadays we use Facebook as a springboard to other sites instead.

Because search engines are no longer concerned with indexing the most obscure sites and only cater to big players that everyone is already familiar with these days, they are making themselves obsolete.