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I remember a psychology study that showed people recognize www.yahoo.com as a url more quickly than yahoo.com -- with the latter, you don't see the ".com" unti

by aneesh 17y ago

I remember a psychology study that showed people recognize www.yahoo.com as a url more quickly than yahoo.com -- with the latter, you don't see the ".com" until you get to the end of the phrase, and that's when you realize it's a url. I can only imagine that getting rid of the .com would make things even worse.

marcus 17y ago
That is because of psychological mechanism called Priming, basically an earlier input can affect your perception of a later input. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)