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I think what we're seeing here is people no longer search for Facebook on Google; they have started going straight to Facebook, with no Google in between. For l
by supersillyus 15y ago
I think what we're seeing here is people no longer search for Facebook on Google; they have started going straight to Facebook, with no Google in between. For lots of folks, Facebook is the internet.
- momotomo 15y agoExactly this. As hard as I try to be pro-privacy and anti facebook, it's on ever device I own and bookmarked into the very muscle memory of my hands. Where I used to log onto IRC to see what was happening after work, now it's FB instead.
- finisterre 15y agoA few months ago Facebook started aggressively suggesting users make it their homepage. Perhaps this is evidence that campaign worked.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoOh, it was aggressive. The only options that were available when the dialog showed up for me, was to either oblige, or to "Skip".
- misuse-permit 15y agoAre you telling me I get hit with aggressive ads every time I login to my bank account? :(
- dholowiski 15y agoHowever, for lots of people the Google search box IS the address bar - this is true in both IE and Chrome.
- hugh3 15y agoI don't know about IE, but in Chrome you'd have to work at it to actually search for "facebook" rather than going to facebook.com. Try it. Type "facebook". Heck, on most folks' machines you can just type "f". It'll auto-complete the URL. If you want to actually google for "facebook" you'll have to type "facebook " with a space.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoActually you just type ?facebook to force it to search. This even works with URLs: ?facebook.com
- bruceboughton 15y agoYou may be correct but you're missing the point.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoSorry, it was besides the point, not missing the point though.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoSorry, it was besides the point, not missing the point though.
- pedalpete 15y agobut with autocomplete, would they be going directly to the URL? or would it complete a search first? If you aren't sharing your browsing habits with Google or Microsoft, would this behavior show up? Also, this won't show a 'change' in behavior over the last few months or a year because the address bar has acted as search for some time already.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThis would only be accelerated by the explosion of mobile devices with native facebook apps.