@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agoPeople really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address barlemmy.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1186
arrow-up1170imagePeople really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address barlemmy.world@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish93•2 years agoSometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.
minus-squareanonlinkfedilink4•2 years agoCtrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agobookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD
minus-squareyouthinkyouknowmelinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoThis happens on firefox with me. It doesn’t autocomplete, then I have to tab a couple of search suggestions to get to the website I want.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agoSometimes I type the full url out in Firefox and it still searches
minus-squareTimwilinkfedilink4•2 years agoYeah it does that when what you typed contains certain characters, such as the space.
minus-squareRhynoplazlinkfedilinkEnglish18•edit-22 years agoYup, 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.
minus-squareHogger85blinkfedilink3•2 years agoYeah my android phone the URL and search box is combined so somtimes it think I am searching other times it goes straight to to site.
Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.
Ctrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.
bookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD
This happens on firefox with me. It doesn’t autocomplete, then I have to tab a couple of search suggestions to get to the website I want.
Sometimes I type the full url out in Firefox and it still searches
Yeah it does that when what you typed contains certain characters, such as the space.
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.
Yeah my android phone the URL and search box is combined so somtimes it think I am searching other times it goes straight to to site.