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Non-technical people do weird things.
by ezekg 5y ago
Non-technical people do weird things.
- airstrike 5y agoEarly into my career I had a corporate job and virtually all of my coworkers would follow the same approach: 1. type 'google' into the address bar 2. type the name of a major website into the search bar, e.g. 'cnn' 3. click on the cnn link at the top of the search results I always asked them why they wouldn't simply type cnn.com in the address bar, but the only response I got was a confused look People simply don't understand URLs. Google has made it so easy to find their destination that they'd rather waste 3 clicks than learn how to browse the web efficiently
- rchaud 5y agoOlder users have probably been burned by mistyping the URL and ending up on a spam site that owns a proximal address like "googl.co". I myself remember having it happen back in the day. These days big companies with scammable audiences like FB and Google buy up any domain name that could reasonably be associated with them.
- baobabKoodaa 5y agoI've stopped manually typing urls put of fear of typosquatting. If you don't have something bookmarked, it's safer to google for the website and click the first non-ad result.
- dunnevens 5y agoSame. I used to mock those used Google as their address bar. But I've ended up in the same place. At least for sites I don't visit daily / weekly. There's so many different TLDs now. I never remember if some rarely visited site is .com or something else.
- moate 5y ago"Oh my God, Jerry? When you check your email, you go to AltaVista and type 'please go to yahoo.com'?"-Tom Haverford.
- unbalancedevh 5y agoI don't like using the address bar for search. It just feels wrong to me, like the browser is taking over that much more of what it thinks I want to do.