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Was the idea that typing the word “McDonalds” into my browser’s URL box would take me directly to that company’s website, instead of to a search query for the s
by gorgoiler 2y ago
Was the idea that typing the word “McDonalds” into my browser’s URL box would take me directly to that company’s website, instead of to a search query for the same term?
That seems like a scurrilous end-run around default search behaviour that one could hardly believe the major browsers would allow it. (For example, only treating your text as a domain lookup if the location had a dot in it, and was free of spaces or other punctuation.)
- protocolture 2y agoWhen I was knee high to an elf I recall that a couple browsers (IE5 and Netscape were the ones I tested) did seem to lookup .com for the term. This was before the URL bar became a search box. But you could reliably type something like hotmail or cute or joke and get to the correct website. The problems from there are super obvious and I am not surprised this no longer works.
- pests 2y agoThis was indeed how it worked before the search bar and address bar were combined into the same input And it's another (legacy) reason .com was so popular / important being the one the browser would default to.