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Huh? What does prevent Joe User from typing in https://www.nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com?
by DocTomoe 3y ago
Huh? What does prevent Joe User from typing in https://www.nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com?
- riku_iki 3y agofiguring out exact "nytimes.com" address without using google, unless he has all 100M web sites in his memory somehow.
- DocTomoe 3y agoBuy a newspaper - the URL is right up there in the masthead. Alternatively there is guessing the domain, which is how we found our stuff back in the day.
- riku_iki 3y agosure, you can even have friends, and exchange paper letters talking about news, but 95% people use google, and that's why it is called monopoly.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoFortunately, these days if you guess wrong, the browser will just open you results of Google search for the string you just typed in (what used to be) the address bar.
- johnbellone 3y agoThe problem is with discoverability, i.e., knowing that you want to type "nytimes.com" instead of "theonion.com", or even "amazon.com". Most people start at a search engine with keywords because that's how we've trained them for the past 25 years.