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I stopped when she "grew confused" by the weird articles. Perhaps she shouldn't be viewing webpages at all. Most people would recognize this instantly as nonsen

by zig 15y ago

I stopped when she "grew confused" by the weird articles. Perhaps she shouldn't be viewing webpages at all. Most people would recognize this instantly as nonsense, click the back button, and select another search result.

ThomPete 15y ago
You clearly haven't taken the average user into consideration. The users who got confused when by accident RRW ranked higher than Facebook because of an article with the word facebook and login. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo... But even for us "in the know" Try and google for photoshop tutorials and you will have to wade through endless of these fake pages. It is a real problem.
- p4bl0 15y ago
  Whoa. I knew some people sadly use Google even when they know the url, but this is just... wtf?! No wonder why there's so many phishing spams, people so uneducated for web usage must get owned all the time... Maybe it's time for primary school to teach children basics about how to use a computer a bit more safely. The problem with this is that every time I saw something like it, it was actually advertisement for Microsoft products dispensed by teachers who didn't knew what a url is (and they're not to blame for that).
  - SandB0x 15y ago
    I know several highly educated people who type "google" into the Google search box in Firefox to get to Google. You and I are almost certainly doing equally bizarre and convoluted things in other areas of our lives.
    - adolph 15y ago
      Google search bar is truly the command line of the Internet.
      - jeffool 15y ago
        I don't think I ever really understood how "odd" I must seem to some people when using YubNub...
        adolph 15y ago
        Thats pretty cool looking: http://yubnub.org/ http://yubnub.org/
        jeffool 15y ago
        I suppose I could've explained it... It's ideal for keyboard-heavy users. Instead of typing a search term into the search box and Ctrl+Arrow-ing to the search engine I want to use, with YubNub (in Firefox and Chrome, maybe IE?) you type in a command for what you want to do. "g FDR" does a Google search of "FDR". b Bing, y Yahoo, yt YouTube, CNN, ESPN, IMDB, and on and on. There's even some slightly stronger commands: "tr Chi Eng 晚安" uses Google Translate from Chinese to English, telling me "晚安" means "good night". Yeah, I mostly use the "g" and "yt" commands, but I love the flexibility without having to arrange search engines. I just remember a few letters/commands. For a long time I'd resorted to typing "site:imdb.com" as my first search term into a Google search box. No more. Also, you can define your own shortcuts! On a whim, I pointed XBLA to the Xbox Live marketplace at Xbox.com, and it works wonderfully. So now I can just type "xbla Trenched" and get to the page so I can buy the game with a click. A few of their "Golden Egg" commands: http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs?args= http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs?args=
        sesqu 15y ago
        This functionality is actually built into Firefox and Chrome, and I'd be shocked if at least Opera didn't have it too. It's the "keyword" field in search engine settings. I believe multiple parameters are also allowed, but not having used them, can't vouch.
        p4bl0 15y ago
        As sesqu said, this features is built into firefox. I only have a window-wide url bar on my firefox and extensively use these "keyworded" bookmarks. So in my url bar I can "g foo" to search "foo" using google, "wp foo" for wikipedia fr, "wpe foo" for wikipedia english, "imdb foo" for imdb, "yt foo" for youtube, "dm foo" for dailymotion, "gdv foo" to load the document which url is "foo" into google docs viewer, "tw" take me to twitter, "fb" to facebook, "hn" to Hacker News, "mail" to gmail, "reader" to google reader, "in" to linked in... I don't have to all list in my head, it's mostly a finger habits now. What is really cool since firefox has the awesomebar is that it is aware of this and display the actual url so when i type "imdb foo bar" i see "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=foo+bar http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=foo+bar at the top of the proposed url. This is really handy for people like me who mostly use their keyboard: this powerful firefox feature is just a ctrl+L away when I'm already in firefox :-).
  - Despite 15y ago
    The unification of search and URL bar in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile browsers makes this even more common, at least for me. I don't always know if the browser is going to find a bookmark, something in my history, search Google, or try to open an URL.
  - sili 15y ago
    To use an analogy, humanity is still an equivalent of a bunch of 3 year olds alone in a middle of a busy city square as far as web maturity goes. Some might know not to wonder into the car traffic but would still fall for a stranger with a candy in his van.
  - saraid216 15y ago
    For what it's worth, they were definitely pushing it when I was in college, and as far as I know, it's expanding into the high school level and possibly further. And actually spreading it was an explicit goal of many librarians and librarians-to-be I knew. It could be better, certainly, but it's also being worked on.
- minikomi 15y ago
  Design related spam seems to be an area where a stack exchange like site could step in and really take off.. lists of lists of lists of blogs of my favorite 50 photoshop brushes..
- chunky1994 15y ago
  I agree, there's a lot of tiring unrelated stuff on the internet, the only way to avoid it, sadly, is to wade through it, till you find what you're looking for.
  - hernan7 15y ago
    So thanks to black hat SEO spammers and related ne'er-do-wells, we are back to AltaVista times.

by zig 15y ago

ThomPete 15y ago

You clearly haven't taken the average user into consideration. The users who got confused when by accident RRW ranked higher than Facebook because of an article with the word facebook and login. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo... But even for us "in the know" Try and google for photoshop tutorials and you will have to wade through endless of these fake pages. It is a real problem.

p4bl0 15y ago
Whoa. I knew some people sadly use Google even when they know the url, but this is just... wtf?! No wonder why there's so many phishing spams, people so uneducated for web usage must get owned all the time... Maybe it's time for primary school to teach children basics about how to use a computer a bit more safely. The problem with this is that every time I saw something like it, it was actually advertisement for Microsoft products dispensed by teachers who didn't knew what a url is (and they're not to blame for that).
- SandB0x 15y ago
  I know several highly educated people who type "google" into the Google search box in Firefox to get to Google. You and I are almost certainly doing equally bizarre and convoluted things in other areas of our lives.
  - adolph 15y ago
    Google search bar is truly the command line of the Internet.
    - jeffool 15y ago
      I don't think I ever really understood how "odd" I must seem to some people when using YubNub...
      - adolph 15y ago
        Thats pretty cool looking: http://yubnub.org/ http://yubnub.org/
        jeffool 15y ago
        I suppose I could've explained it... It's ideal for keyboard-heavy users. Instead of typing a search term into the search box and Ctrl+Arrow-ing to the search engine I want to use, with YubNub (in Firefox and Chrome, maybe IE?) you type in a command for what you want to do. "g FDR" does a Google search of "FDR". b Bing, y Yahoo, yt YouTube, CNN, ESPN, IMDB, and on and on. There's even some slightly stronger commands: "tr Chi Eng 晚安" uses Google Translate from Chinese to English, telling me "晚安" means "good night". Yeah, I mostly use the "g" and "yt" commands, but I love the flexibility without having to arrange search engines. I just remember a few letters/commands. For a long time I'd resorted to typing "site:imdb.com" as my first search term into a Google search box. No more. Also, you can define your own shortcuts! On a whim, I pointed XBLA to the Xbox Live marketplace at Xbox.com, and it works wonderfully. So now I can just type "xbla Trenched" and get to the page so I can buy the game with a click. A few of their "Golden Egg" commands: http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs?args= http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs?args=
        sesqu 15y ago
        This functionality is actually built into Firefox and Chrome, and I'd be shocked if at least Opera didn't have it too. It's the "keyword" field in search engine settings. I believe multiple parameters are also allowed, but not having used them, can't vouch.
        p4bl0 15y ago
        As sesqu said, this features is built into firefox. I only have a window-wide url bar on my firefox and extensively use these "keyworded" bookmarks. So in my url bar I can "g foo" to search "foo" using google, "wp foo" for wikipedia fr, "wpe foo" for wikipedia english, "imdb foo" for imdb, "yt foo" for youtube, "dm foo" for dailymotion, "gdv foo" to load the document which url is "foo" into google docs viewer, "tw" take me to twitter, "fb" to facebook, "hn" to Hacker News, "mail" to gmail, "reader" to google reader, "in" to linked in... I don't have to all list in my head, it's mostly a finger habits now. What is really cool since firefox has the awesomebar is that it is aware of this and display the actual url so when i type "imdb foo bar" i see "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=foo+bar http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=foo+bar at the top of the proposed url. This is really handy for people like me who mostly use their keyboard: this powerful firefox feature is just a ctrl+L away when I'm already in firefox :-).
- Despite 15y ago
  The unification of search and URL bar in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile browsers makes this even more common, at least for me. I don't always know if the browser is going to find a bookmark, something in my history, search Google, or try to open an URL.
- sili 15y ago
  To use an analogy, humanity is still an equivalent of a bunch of 3 year olds alone in a middle of a busy city square as far as web maturity goes. Some might know not to wonder into the car traffic but would still fall for a stranger with a candy in his van.
- saraid216 15y ago
  For what it's worth, they were definitely pushing it when I was in college, and as far as I know, it's expanding into the high school level and possibly further. And actually spreading it was an explicit goal of many librarians and librarians-to-be I knew. It could be better, certainly, but it's also being worked on.
minikomi 15y ago
Design related spam seems to be an area where a stack exchange like site could step in and really take off.. lists of lists of lists of blogs of my favorite 50 photoshop brushes..
chunky1994 15y ago
I agree, there's a lot of tiring unrelated stuff on the internet, the only way to avoid it, sadly, is to wade through it, till you find what you're looking for.
- hernan7 15y ago
  So thanks to black hat SEO spammers and related ne'er-do-wells, we are back to AltaVista times.