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There is a logic, you type "n" and "news.yc[...].com" comes up, so when you type "ne" then you're presumably (the logic goes) looking for something other than t
by pbhjpbhj 3y ago
There is a logic, you type "n" and "news.yc[...].com" comes up, so when you type "ne" then you're presumably (the logic goes) looking for something other than the website that was just presented to you; otherwise you would have chosen that website already rather than continuing to search by adding more letters.
In practice people type what they think will turn up the results "news", say, and don't look at the results until they're finished typing.
- bee_rider 3y agoI guess that logic isn’t totally absurd. In that case, it would be nice if, under their “current best guess,” a descending list of all the previous “best guesses” was shown. Another annoying aspect to it is that things enter your history as you browse, so the number of characters to hit that point where it shows what you want might shift around. Which totally destroys muscle memory. This isn’t the browser’s fault of course, but it would be nice if they could design around it.