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by vashthestampede 5965 days ago
It is amazing to this that people need to go to google in order to pull up any site. No, don't type in google.com, type in facebook.com instead. Do you do a google search when logging in to online banking? Checking your email?

And seriously? How much time can one sepnd on facebook in the first place? I swear my uncles and aunts and parents play on it for hours.
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samc 5965 days ago
I recently watched a friend in his mid 20's try to install some poker software on a new laptop. He's been playing poker online for years.

Anyway, to get the software he clicked IE which brought up the default home page (AOL). In the AOL search box he typed 'google' and selected the first result. Then when google loaded he typed 'poker stars' in the search box to get to the correct site.

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daleharvey 5965 days ago
I always get confused by this attitude, I use the internet pretty much all day, most days.

When I visit a url, I type it in the "address bar", however I have never typed a tld, so my address bar is actually a google search, its generally always the first link, I click on it, on subsequent visits it auto completes.

Compared to the amount of times I have misspelt a domain, plain forgot it, or got the tld wrong, typing a keyword and clicking on the first result was always the easiest way for me.

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lftl 5965 days ago
Having done some work for a local credit union, I can tell you that yes people do actually do a google search for their bank to get to their online banking.

One item to consider is that a large portion of these people probably have google as their homepage, so they don't "go" to google, it's just he most conspicuous box when they fire up their browser.

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vashthestampede 5965 days ago
Yeah, that's true. My inlaws though, they have Yahoo! set as their homepage, then go to google to get to a web address. I asked them why not just set it to google, and they said they liked having news and weather on the homepage to check out first. I tried to show them you can do that with google too, they just weren't going for it.
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misuba 5965 days ago
People hate change a lot more than they hate inefficiency!
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