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I've seen people type "example" into the address bar, hit enter, then click the Google link to example.com, without realizing that they could just add ".com" t

I've seen people type "example" into the address bar, hit enter, then click the Google link to example.com, without realizing that they could just add ".com" to the end of their initial query and go directly to their destination.

takk309 7y ago
My wife does this all the time. If she wants to go to Prime video she types "Amazon Prime Video" into her address bar then clicks the first Google result, often the ad for Prime Video.
- sdoering 7y ago
  If I do not like a company but need to visit their site, I also do this just to increase the cost for said company as Google Ads are 'cost per click'.
  - xp84 7y ago
    ^ This works really well except for if the company you don't like is Google :D Oh, I tried an alternate approach and it didn't work... Search bing for Google and you just get a second bing. https://imgur.com/a/YntBiYc https://imgur.com/a/YntBiYc
- unlinked_dll 7y ago
  To be fair, the actual page navigation to amazon prime video is not straightforward.
bluGill 7y ago
I started doing that years back. I'm a bad speller and sometimes the url is example.net where example.com exists as some scam that I wouldn't want but looks like the real example.net. Google will correct my spelling and find the correct string to put after the name.
praxulus 7y ago
If you have a typo in the name, Google will fix it for you, whereas your browser will happily take you to a domain that is probably owned by a scammer.
- xp84 7y ago
  One could argue that since Google is JUST as happy to take money from scammers for an ad for the keyword WellsFrago as the Registry would be to sell the domain WellsFrago dot com ... I'm not sure either approach is technically safer than the other if you're prone to typos. I think (gasp) bookmarking the important sites you need is the only safe approach.

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I've seen people type "example" into the address bar, hit enter, then click the Google link to example.com, without realizing that they could just add ".com" t

by smichel17 7y ago

takk309 7y ago
My wife does this all the time. If she wants to go to Prime video she types "Amazon Prime Video" into her address bar then clicks the first Google result, often the ad for Prime Video.
- sdoering 7y ago
  If I do not like a company but need to visit their site, I also do this just to increase the cost for said company as Google Ads are 'cost per click'.
  - xp84 7y ago
    ^ This works really well except for if the company you don't like is Google :D Oh, I tried an alternate approach and it didn't work... Search bing for Google and you just get a second bing. https://imgur.com/a/YntBiYc https://imgur.com/a/YntBiYc
- unlinked_dll 7y ago
  To be fair, the actual page navigation to amazon prime video is not straightforward.
bluGill 7y ago
I started doing that years back. I'm a bad speller and sometimes the url is example.net where example.com exists as some scam that I wouldn't want but looks like the real example.net. Google will correct my spelling and find the correct string to put after the name.
praxulus 7y ago
If you have a typo in the name, Google will fix it for you, whereas your browser will happily take you to a domain that is probably owned by a scammer.
- xp84 7y ago
  One could argue that since Google is JUST as happy to take money from scammers for an ad for the keyword WellsFrago as the Registry would be to sell the domain WellsFrago dot com ... I'm not sure either approach is technically safer than the other if you're prone to typos. I think (gasp) bookmarking the important sites you need is the only safe approach.