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> I got her to show me how she used the computer; she got into Facebook by typing Facebook into Bing and clicking on the search result. This is so common to no
by M4v3R 13y ago
> I got her to show me how she used the computer; she got into Facebook by typing Facebook into Bing and clicking on the search result.
This is so common to non tech-savvy people (I observed this dozens of time) that it makes you wonder why browsers adopted single bar for searching AND entering the URLs so late. This, when implemented properly, solves the problem, because usually you only need to type just few letters from site name and hit Enter to go there.
- cosmie 13y agoThe problem is you have to know that behavior exists. Many of the users that "search to site" will still type Google into the omnibox, and complete the process as they always have (by searching Google for Facebook and clicking the link).
- donutz 13y agoEven this "you only need to type just few letters from site name" escapes many of these people. They'll continue typing the whole search term, or the whole domain name, even if Google has already auto-filled it. I've seen it happen.
- freehunter 13y agoI had a Java professor who would load up a browser and use the Google search box on the school's homepage to search for Yahoo and then put a URL into the Yahoo search page. Most infuriating thing I've ever seen.
- oftenwrong 13y agoA few years back there was an amusing instance of a blog post overtaking the facebook login page on google when people searched for "facebook login" http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_meme http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...