Title.
This still makes no sense to me.
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.
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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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.
Blame chrome. Autofill doesn’t include .com? Welp, guess I’ll just hit the top search link instead then.
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.
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.
Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.
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.
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.
Ctrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.
bookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD
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.
The data in that graph doesn’t show what your title is inferring. For one, the y-axis is relative, and not absolute. Secondly, your data range is set to the past week so this says nothing about how this method of searching is trending over any useful period of time.
And then they click the top link for the ad too.
Isn’t the company who posted the ad charged every time their ad is clicked? Sometimes I click them just to make the company pay for me clicking the ad. Lol yes I can be petty.
Have people never heard of bookmarks?
Whats?
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.
Check how many people googles google
I do that when internet is kinda funky and I want to check Google, because that’s my go to site to see if shit still works. Whatever happens I kinda trust Google the most to be up. So I just search for google in my phone browser which defaults to google.
I do that when I want to get to Google lens, it’s the easiest way since lens.google.com takes you to a bullshit marketing page 🤷
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And triple click to open a browser.
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
It works better than the reddit search feature
