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This still makes no sense to me.

  • Greenskye@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Blame chrome. Autofill doesn’t include .com? Welp, guess I’ll just hit the top search link instead then.

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    1 year ago

    Those graphs are scaled so the largest result is always at 100 - so you can’t really tell how many people are doing this sort of thing from this graph. It could be dozens or millions. Having your search country set to only South Africa also seems pretty non-representative.

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    1 year ago

    Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.

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      1 year ago

      Yup, this is me. Its faster to type “fa”, press enter, and click the Google link to Facebook than type everything.com.

      Google would rather it look like THEY took you there, so most actions are going to give results instead of the actual site.

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    1 year ago

    In college late 90s I knew one person who would navigate to Yahoo and search for Google.

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    1 year ago

    Could also be due to the fact that the search bar and the address bar is the same, if you forget, or don’t know to put.com at the end, it will take you straight to the search page.

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    1 year ago

    It’s actually a tip I was taught so as to avoid accidentally entering a scam or phishing site instead. Of course, then there’s the Google Ads being the ‘result’ and those are the new phishing sites…

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    1 year ago

    Considering how many web addresses with similar spellings lead to malware sites, it’s usually safer to do a search rather than typing a long address from memory.

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    1 year ago

    Android keyboards are still so terrible that I often type “site com” because I hit the space instead of period

    Though as a site analyst for many years, this is accurate. Our domain was the top incoming search phrase for a long time. Varied by browser, like IE since it had a separate search bar. Chrome just took them right to our site

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      1 year ago

      I have the opposite problem on iOS. Every time I try to search for something it.comes.out.like.this and then takes me to a website that doesn’t exist. So frustrating!