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by pqs 6494 days ago
Many people use google's main site as a location bar. I've seen this quite often, even among people working in science and holding a PhD. It's not only my granny.

After writing this comment I saw another comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294070 of a person that says he does this. So it must be quite common.

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If you are typing a url into google.com's search box the expectation already exists that google.com will have this data.

If you are typing a url into your browser's location bar, you aren't going to assume google.com will have it.

Google is changing this game.