I didn't make a case for easier editing of URLs. I agree, I don't see how that would help at all. All I've ever said is that I have observed many students lacki

I didn't make a case for easier editing of URLs. I agree, I don't see how that would help at all. All I've ever said is that I have observed many students lacking knowledge of what a URL is and that's a shame and gave some examples of when it would have helped them to know. Regarding your second paragraph, sure it would be better for search results to be displayed if there's no TLD specified. However, when it's the ONLY way you know how to access a website and when that fails, as it did today, knowing how to manually enter a URL would be useful. I agree that things are much more user friendly today, but because things are so easy people get really stuck when those ways fail and they have no way of troubleshooting anything. I won't get in to how many students (and teachers) I see stumped because the ethernet cable has come out of their laptop or they can't open a file because they've copied the shortcut to a folder to a USB rather than the folder itself.