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Google also built Chrome to send people to Google Search and click on ads on the way to their destinations. That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. Yo

Google also built Chrome to send people to Google Search and click on ads on the way to their destinations. That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site. The ads are now disguised so well that most people probably click on them without realizing that they are ads. Unfortunately, Firefox is now making a mistake by copying Chrome and mixing search results with URLs in one box. You have to go into the settings to re-enable two boxes (ctrl-l for URLs, ctrl-k for search).

bogomipz 8y ago
>"That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site." Interesting I have noticed this lately as well. Really bad one character a second latency. This is recent-ish phenomenon no? I don't remember this ever being an issue before. >"Unfortunately, Firefox is now making a mistake by copying Chrome and mixing search results with URLs in one box" I completely agree. I wonder if this is why Google removed the home icon by default in more recent version of Chrome? If you take away the search home button there is no delineation between search and typing a URL. Is this another dark pattern?
- JoshMnem 8y ago
  It has been like that as long as I can remember. I couldn't understand why people were falling for the "Chrome is faster" line when it was wasting everyone's time by sending people to search results instead of URLs like Firefox. Google Chrome doesn't really let you set a home page other than a Google Search box. Even if you set your home page to a specific URL, opening a new tab doesn't start you on your home page -- you get a Google Search box. Google's attempt to remove subdomains and hide URLs from users also appears to be part of a plan to force users to become more dependent on search rather than being able to go directly to destinations. Chrome is full of manipulative patterns.

bogomipz 8y ago

>"That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site." Interesting I have noticed this lately as well. Really bad one character a second latency. This is recent-ish phenomenon no? I don't remember this ever being an issue before. >"Unfortunately, Firefox is now making a mistake by copying Chrome and mixing search results with URLs in one box" I completely agree. I wonder if this is why Google removed the home icon by default in more recent version of Chrome? If you take away the search home button there is no delineation between search and typing a URL. Is this another dark pattern?

JoshMnem 8y ago
It has been like that as long as I can remember. I couldn't understand why people were falling for the "Chrome is faster" line when it was wasting everyone's time by sending people to search results instead of URLs like Firefox. Google Chrome doesn't really let you set a home page other than a Google Search box. Even if you set your home page to a specific URL, opening a new tab doesn't start you on your home page -- you get a Google Search box. Google's attempt to remove subdomains and hide URLs from users also appears to be part of a plan to force users to become more dependent on search rather than being able to go directly to destinations. Chrome is full of manipulative patterns.