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Not only allow, but forcefully redirect their search input up into the address bar. In my opinion this has been a deliberate and concerted effort by google to g
by lowlevel 5y ago
Not only allow, but forcefully redirect their search input up into the address bar. In my opinion this has been a deliberate and concerted effort by google to get everyone to 'search' instead of go directly to sites and this ux behaviour has been bothering me for a very long time now. I am not at all surprised people are searching for https after all this time.
That being said, there is likely a large number of urls pasted into the search box vs the address bar. (Hardly anyone can tell the difference anymore.)
- judge2020 5y agoNote that, sometime this year or 2020, Google stopped redirecting the search bar on the new tab page to the top url bar in Chrome. The omnibox search still does both web addressing and searching, but the new tab page has considerably less-confusing UX now.
- shadowgovt 5y agoYou're conflating correlation and causation. Unified URL and search was initially introduced by Firefox (via the awesomebar) in 2008, because they'd observed in user testing that users couldn't tell the difference between search text box and URL text box and were disinclined to learn; rather than continue to retrain users (which they'd attempted with multiple iterations of resizing, new icons, etc.), they unified the features and relied upon the two inputs having wildly different shapes of text to disambiguate. Chrome followed suit later that year, because by the time Chrome hit the market, awesomebar had demonstrated its utility for end users.