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This still makes no sense to me.
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And triple click to open a browser.
A bunch of people append “site:reddit.com” or just “reddit” to searches to avoid SEO bullshit, which might cause false positives in the trends graph.
It’s this. I’ll do search terms and append “reddit” or “youtube” if the current list doesn’t get me what I need. I’ll do “site:” if it’s really fucking stubborn.
Yeah, that’s what I suspect is happening here
I do it all the time because the address bar and the search bar are the same bar, on mobile at least. Try it. You open a new tab and get a page with a prompt to type the search term or web address. If you type in the full url with no typos you will be redirected to the correct website. If you do not type the full url you’re getting search results. I do not do this intentionally, I’m just lazy and dumb and it gives you that drop down that looks like it’s saying “oh look here is a link to like Walmart or whatever” so you click on it but it’s search results. This was a very intentional design choice on Google’s part.
Came to say this also. I don’t know why this isn’t obvious.
I was anti using google instead of URLs for a long time. But once browser makers decided to start catering to people who do that by combining the address and search bar…well it happens by accident so often that I’m now one of those people.
I use some sort of browse by name function. I never complete a url, I just type the name and hit enter. It bypasses the search results page and goes to the site direct. So I’m pretty sure I’m contributing to the data but I’m definitely not using it like most.
I’m definitely one of these. I come from the era when misspelling a major websites name meant you landed on a virus infested page that could do all sorts of fun things to your computer.
It works better than the reddit search feature
Have people never heard of bookmarks?
Because I don’t clutter my neatly organised folders for things I use once in a while. And if auto complete doesn’t finish, googling and selecting the first non ad site is a safe bet when u don’t know the full address.
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I do this. It’s 100% beacuse I am lazy and didn’t want to spend a large amount of energy hitting the second key.
At my work, they had to put a link to Google on the intranet because people didn’t know how to get there if it wasn’t their homepage.
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.
Especially if you don’t remember if it’s a .com, .net or .org
I’d using reddit.tk for the longest time before i realised that i was supposed to be on reddit.xxx
This data doesn’t show how many people click on the 2nd, 3rd etc. results instead of the first.
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…
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
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!
I do use Reddit (maybe in the future will start using Lemmy) as a suffix for my searches. But not sure if it counts as one of these searches.
