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Chrome has had a bug for ~6 months where for certain TLDs, it searches instead of going to the typed url. It happens for .no. Google isn't incentivized to fix i

Chrome has had a bug for ~6 months where for certain TLDs, it searches instead of going to the typed url. It happens for .no. Google isn't incentivized to fix it, since they now most likely get a visitor on their search page and earn some money. Combined with a different issue, this is fairly dangerous: Google allows fake scam websites to pay to get the top ad. Above the URL you ended up searching for. There are cases of people writing skatteetaten.no (our IRS) in Chrome, ending up in google search instead, and they then click the top result which is a phishing site stealing their credentials.

soco 3y ago
That, and also the plethora of search suggestions like 192.168.O.1 (notice anything wrong?) happily presented up there. No, DDG doesn't show them, so yes IT IS possible.
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nolist_policy 3y ago
Chrome has a public bug tracker. I can't find any bug report for your issue. Please post a link to your bug report, otherwise it seems like you didn't even try.
- matsemann 3y ago
  Why should I try? I don't use Chrome. I don't care about jumping through hoops to do free work for a big scummy company. I only knew of it from news reports recently after it finally got fixed. https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/derfor-googler-chrome-no-nettadresser-i-stedet-for-a-apne-dem-patetisk/80357910 https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/derfor-googler-chrome-no-nett...
  - nolist_policy 3y ago
    Great, it has a link to the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1488804 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=148880... Fix was commited 7 days after the report was filed.
    - doctorpangloss 3y ago
      Here's an example of Google bug tracking being pretty dysfunctional: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380769 Anyway, Chrome's responsiveness on some random issue isn't at all representative of Google as a whole, which of course, it is impracticable for laypeople to communicate with a real person there.

soco 3y ago

That, and also the plethora of search suggestions like 192.168.O.1 (notice anything wrong?) happily presented up there. No, DDG doesn't show them, so yes IT IS possible.

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nolist_policy 3y ago

Chrome has a public bug tracker. I can't find any bug report for your issue. Please post a link to your bug report, otherwise it seems like you didn't even try.

matsemann 3y ago
Why should I try? I don't use Chrome. I don't care about jumping through hoops to do free work for a big scummy company. I only knew of it from news reports recently after it finally got fixed. https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/derfor-googler-chrome-no-nettadresser-i-stedet-for-a-apne-dem-patetisk/80357910 https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/derfor-googler-chrome-no-nett...
- nolist_policy 3y ago
  Great, it has a link to the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1488804 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=148880... Fix was commited 7 days after the report was filed.
  - doctorpangloss 3y ago
    Here's an example of Google bug tracking being pretty dysfunctional: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380769 Anyway, Chrome's responsiveness on some random issue isn't at all representative of Google as a whole, which of course, it is impracticable for laypeople to communicate with a real person there.