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> I’ve heard that some single digit percentage of Google searches are people searching for Facebook 50% of the time when going to Facebook I mess up the typing
by peteretep 6y ago
> I’ve heard that some single digit percentage of Google searches are people searching for Facebook
50% of the time when going to Facebook I mess up the typing and end up searching for it instead. I suspect that means I’m in those stats.
- magicalhippo 6y agoOr worse, you mess up and end up on some phishing site. For people like my mom, I've explicitly told them to search things rather than type in URLs directly.
- TuringTest 6y agoI consider myself quite experienced in technology, and I do that whenever I go to a popular website that it's not in my browser history. I simply don't trust the variety of .com, .org, .net, .io, .tv... domains to know which one is the right one, but Google organic first results below the ads are usually accurate. For downloading software for which I don't know the publisher's name, I usually look for the Wikipedia article and check the "official website" external link. Sometimes I even double-check the article's history, just to be sure.